GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 253244
Remove repeated messages (duplicates)
Last modified: 2011-02-12 02:52:46 UTC
Description of Problem: Sometimes i have a lot of repeated messages. It would be nice to have the posibility of selecting all the messages repeated and/or delete the repeated ones, leaving only one copy of each message, using filters or something... Thanks, evo-hackers.
For this I use balsa at the moment. It has a 'remove duplicate' feature, which also works if there are more than two messages. It leaves only one equal message. Martin
adding the word "duplicates" to the summary since it's the most common word for this
I'd like this feature to be added, too. I suppose it would not be hard to implement it, is it?
implementing this isn't easy, it's just difficult. :-) duplicates can exist because you could just have several copies in your mailbox, it also could be that some UIDs weren't saved... there are many possible reasons, for more, search the evolution mailing-list archives (e.g. by googling for "duplicates site:lists.ximian.com"). to remove the duplicates, you could take a look into the archives at <http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2005-January/041442.html>. use that script on your own risk, backups can save your day. :-)
Just pointing out a plugin that would do it, much thanks to the developper: http://www.advogato.org/person/garnacho/diary.html?start=18 This is something I need badly: my filters that move messages off the server to save space leave a copy in the remote trash, which will get downloaded again if the trash isn't emptied. Which has a memory and disk usage cost in the long run.
adding keyword eplugin; could be perhaps coded as a eplugin searching for similar message id's and (&&) subjects, dunno
Andre, yeah, see the previous comment which points to a plugin which does just that :) http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/evolution/ It still needs some work, but basically does the job
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IMHO Mutt has a perfect implementation of "remove duplicate" already. I used Mutt for years and never had this do the wrong thing. Rather than reinvent the wheel the easiest approach might just be to copy their algorithm.
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Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net/en/features.html) also has it, and rocks
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Given the number of duplicate this a relevante feature, especially for POP user. Why Garnacho's plugin hasn't been integrated yet ? I see that the latest version is from 04-Nov-2007 23:59, in what state is it ? Any chance to get it integrated in next version of Evolution ? My co-worker was just about to switch to Thunderbird who has similar feature already integrated for this very reason until I find this bug and the plugin.
Hello, I've recently tried Garnacho's plug in, but it didn't work. I would love for this feature to be implemented in Evolution (as a plug in if necessary). Thanks.
SHouldn't this bug be closed? Hasn't it been already fixed?
It's still a third party plugin. Not sure what's keeping it from being shipped with Evolution. Is it using some questionable duplicate detection or something?
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related - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587011 probably can be marked as duplicate.
In case one doesn't want to use this plugin, I wrote a perl script called cleanemail.perl for deleting duplicate or previously moved or deleted messages from your Evolution or Eudora email files. It is especially useful for cases in which your email client loses track of which messages it has downloaded from your mail server, and consequently downloads all messages again, thus creating thousands of duplicate messages in your Inbox. (This unfortunately happens to me regularly in Evolution, and it is quite a pain because it takes a LONG time to re-download all of my messages.) The source code is available at http://dbooth.org/2009/cleanemail/ and the opening comment explains its usage.
As of Evolution v. 2.30.3 this is still not implemented and the bug still exists. Anyone fix this or add a plugin?
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