[Evolution] Converting from Kmail

[Ron Johnson]

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On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:50 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:14, Jon Biddell wrote:
>=20
> > >
> > > If I recall correctly, this was considered and not implemented-- it's
> > > not clear that nearly-identical messages can be identified properly
> > > without a lot of processing.
> >=20
> > Interesting - I wonder how the kmail guys do it - it seems to work pret=
ty=20
> > well, with only the rarest of false deletions - I had a mailbox with 16=
k=20
> > messages (deliberately created to test it) which was a double-import of=
=20
> > another mailbox - I *knew* there would be exactly 8192 duplicates, and =
kmail=20
> > shot through the file in less than 30 seconds.
>=20
> If you want to be quick, you can just delete all but one copy of
> anything with the same Message-id: header.
>=20
> If you want to be more thorough, you could additionally generate sha-1
> or md5 hashes of all messages as they come in, perhaps inserting them
> into a heap.

That's the exact idea I had, except I was thinking of bash and
Maildir...

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of
government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson


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