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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!
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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Un ubuntu gutsy, you need to install evolution-dev to be able to compile this plugin.
Thanks for the tip. Will check it out soon. :)
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