On 2 Jan 2014, at 17:59, Shawn Morris wrote:
Is this functionality broken? When I select it in a mailbox with known
duplicates, it seems to select nothing. How is it determining
duplicates?
I assume Message-ID, but if it's trying to build some kind of tuple of
(from,to,subject,date) i could see why that wouldn't work. I have a
lot of
messages where I'm receiving copies through multiple mailing lists and
I'm
not able to de-duplicate on the server-side.
It's not broken, but it's a bit primitive/inflexible. It is based on
`Message-ID` *and* message size. I would actually like it to be more
strict by basing it on a message digest value to make sure the messages
are identical, but you need it to be less strict.
Using the `selectWithFilter:` custom key binding it would be possible to
make something based on `Message-ID` only. It would work differently
though:
* it would be based on the currently selected message
* it would select all messages instead of all-but-one (which is how the
menu item works to make it easy to delete duplicates without deleting
the “original”).
It's difficult to make the menu item work in a way that is suitable for
all use cases. It might make more sense to implement the necessary
“building blocks” to do this using a bundle command (2.0 feature).
(These are building blocks needed anyways.) That would allow customizing
it to behave any way you like *and* make it happen automatically using a
rule on incoming messages.
--
Benny
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