GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317706
Add Action "Remove Duplicates"
Last modified: 2005-10-31 15:31:35 UTC
I recommend an item in the "Action" menu that will remove all duplicate messages from a mail directory (e.g. Inbox). Duplicate messages are often created due to the totally incoherent, incompetent filtering mechanism Evolution uses (or it's users never manage to use correctly) Other information: Sylpheed has had this feature since 2001.
hehe. most users do not understand that the filters list works one by one and that there is a "stop processing" rule, but your comment about that is a bit vague. :-) OK. There are several possible reasons when this happens: * You have got several copies in your mailbox * The mail server supports the UIDL extension yet changes the message UIDs each session * The mail server does not support UIDL (which means Evolution has to generate UIDs using md5sums of the message headers) but the server changes the message headers after download (usually adding a Status: or X-Status: header - Evolution's md5sum ignores these, but Evolution may be missing other headers that this particular server munges) * $HOME/.evolution/mail/pop/cache-* files are not writable There is also a script to get rid of duplicates available at http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2005-January/041442.html, and an external plugin available at http://www.advogato.org/person/garnacho/diary.html?start=18. so what would be the expected behaviour if you really get two copies of an email, e.g. one to your personal address and one to the mailing list you are subscribed to? this is an enhancement and not "minor" because it is not a bug, but a missing feature.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253244 ***