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Getting rid of duplicate messages in Evolution

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As an otherwise happy Evolution user, I was envious to Thunderbird users because of some of the plugins they have. One of the more useful ones is the Remove Duplicate Messages extension. A sane email client doesn’t create duplicates of course, but when you move mailboxes around, switch from an IMAP server to another, or restore mail from your backups after a disaster, it is easy to accidentally create hundreds of duplicates. (My recent return to Gmail since they started offering IMAP comes to mind!)

Today I was browsing the Evolution FAQ just to see what it’s like and whether there are any cool Evo tricks I don’t know about. There are, and I also found out about the existence of a remove-duplicates-plugin!

Evolution remove-duplicates-plugin

The plugin builds nicely on Ubuntu Gutsy, and after restarting Evolution you can go and enable the plugin. Then simply select all messages in a folder and find a new “Remove duplicates” entry in the context menu.

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6 Responses to “Getting rid of duplicate messages in Evolution”

  1. Krešimir Tonković on November 20th, 2007 5:28 pm

    Un ubuntu gutsy, you need to install evolution-dev to be able to compile this plugin.

  2. Clair on November 21st, 2007 8:15 pm

    Thanks for the tip. Will check it out soon. :)

  3. TuxFeed › tales from the offtopic #17: upgrade frenzy on December 2nd, 2007 6:41 pm

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  5. Como remover mensagens duplicadas no Evolution | Leonardo Fontenelle on April 23rd, 2008 5:40 am

    [...] Na maior parte das distribuições, é necessário instalar tanto o Evolution quanto o evolution-dev (não é o caso do Gentoo). Baixe o plug-in, e execute o famoso ./configure; make; sudo make install. Deixe o código-fonte num canto, para o caso de querer executar um dia o sudo make uninstall. Obrigado a Juha K. Siltala pela dica! [...]

  6. Removing duplicate messages in Evolution | Leonardo Fontenelle on April 23rd, 2008 5:46 am

    [...] the way, thanks for the tip, Juha K. [...]

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