notmuch-mutt: support for duplicate message removal

Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 09:26:05 PDT 2012


On Mi, 01 aug 12, 13:24:24, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at upsilon.cc> wrote:
> >
> > Also, if you've further comments on the patch, do not hesitate!
> 
> I'm guessing you get the duplicates because you have dupes in the mail
> store, and 'notmuch search --output=files' prints all the filenames
> associated with each matching message, rather than any other reason. The
> presented approach will only remove identical files, and will leave
> behind files that are basically the same message, but have differing
> headers, e.g. due to being received through different channels. Is this
> what you want?

I'm at least one user that cares enough about the distinction to have 
all list mails received via a different address, just to avoid Gmail's 
"feature" of silently dropping my own messages received via a list. 
IMVHO it should at least be configurable...

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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