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From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: remove duplicates from a group
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:02:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mswdn5cv.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg0g9bzp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I've got several nnmaildir groups with many duplicate messages sharing the
>> same Message-ID. I know Gnus can act on duplicate messages it receives
>> according to nnmail-treat-duplicates, but how to deal with duplicate
>> messages already in a nnmaildir group ?
>>
>> Ideally, I would like to mark all the duplicate messages in a group. 
>
> No, there's nothing like that available right now. Probably we'd want it
> to be a search function, rather than marking or limiting, since the
> latter would require you to first open a summary buffer containing all
> the articles in the group. Search would ensure that you're checking the
> whole group for duplicates, and then maybe there could be a dedicated
> marking function after that, for marking all but one of duplicate
> messages.
>
> But none of that exists right now!

Thanks, now I can stop searching for this function and maybe start
coding…

-- 
Julien Cubizolles



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-20  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-18  6:49 Julien Cubizolles
2023-10-18 15:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-20  7:02   ` Julien Cubizolles [this message]
2023-10-20 14:57     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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