[sylpheed:31663] Re: Deleting duplicate messages

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:45:49 -0400
Celejar <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:55:31 +0200
> Massimiliano Marini <max at linuxtime.it> wrote:
> 
> > > I'm having a problem with the 'Delete duplicate messages' menu
> > > option. Often I receive a message (via POP), read it, and then
> > > receive it again (through a different POP account).  When I do
> > > 'Delete duplicate messages', the original one is apparently
> > > removed, and the remaining one is left marked unread.  This seems
> > > wrong, since I've already actually read the message.  Am I
> > > missing something?  Is this behavior configurable somehow?
> > 
> > In my case when I have 2 duplicate message .. one "marked" read and
> > one marked "unread" the "Delete Duplicate Messages" function remove
> > the message that is marked "unread".
> > 
> > There's no option for this behavior, but I think is better to remove
> > the message marked as "unread".
> > 
> > My +1
> 
> So we both agree that removing the unread one is "the right thing".
> My Sylpheed sometimes removes the read one and sometimes the unread
> one. After playing around a bit, it seems that my Sylpheed always
> removes the one whose file (I use MH mailboxes) has the earlier
> timestamp.  Can anyone verify this?  If so, is there a consensus on
> whether this is 'correct' or not?

In the current implementation of 'Delete duplicated messages', it is
dependent on the order of the summary view. The undermost one will
always remain.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>