>>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "VK" == Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
VK> I just set up my mail program (VM under XEmacs) to auto-delete
VK> messages with identical Message-ID headers. It solves this
VK> problem quite nicely, and at much less cost than the bandwidth
VK> wasted on this whole discussion ;-)
BAW> Please post the code! :)
;;; purge duplicated messages (From Noah Friedman off Usenet)
(add-hook 'vm-arrived-messages-hook 'vma-kill-duplicate-messages-by-message-id)
(defun vma-kill-duplicate-messages-by-message-id (&optional mp)
"Mark as deleted any message with a duplicate message ID.
Any undeleted message which has a Message ID indentical to that of another
undeleted message in the same folder, is marked for deletion."
(interactive)
(vm-select-folder-buffer)
(vm-check-for-killed-summary)
(vm-error-if-folder-read-only)
(vm-error-if-folder-empty)
(let ((htbl (make-vector 103 0))
(n 0)
(case-fold-search t)
mid)
(unless mp
(setq mp vm-message-list))
(while mp
(cond ((vm-deleted-flag (car mp)))
(t
(setq mid (vm-su-message-id (car mp)))
(or mid (debug (car mp)))
(when (intern-soft mid htbl)
(vm-set-deleted-flag (car mp) t)
(setq n (1+ n)))
(intern mid htbl)))
(setq mp (cdr mp)))
(and (interactive-p)
(message "%d duplicate%s marked deleted" n (if (= n 1) "" "s")))
(vm-update-summary-and-mode-line)
(when vm-move-after-killing
(let ((vm-circular-folders (and vm-circular-folders
(eq vm-move-after-killing t))))
(vm-next-message 1 t executing-kbd-macro)))
n))
