60876 - Hide duplicated messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Adrian]

Sometimes Messenger downloads twice the same message. And then we need an option 
to search for duplicates and to hide them (eg. Edit|Show/Hide duplicates) - not 
delete or move them but just hide them. And an second option Edit|Select all 
dups.
P.S. Don't know what category, but maybe filtering?

Comment 1

[Adrian]

It dups when "Leave mail on server" is checked.

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW...though not sure if this is taken care of or not.

Comment 3

[Adrian]

It is also good, when somebody mail-bombs you. One click, and 5000 messages
reduced to 1.

Comment 4

[Aleksey Nogin]

I believe that this bug is a duplicate of the bug 9413.

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Not sure.  Bug #9413 is (now) about removing exact duplicates (body + all
headers inc. MsgID) _automatically_ that land in the same folder, which is a
no-brainer.

Although you would pretty much always expect exact duplicates to land in the
same folder, that's not entirely guaranteed for different reasons.  And you
might also want to search for near duplicates (ie those with identical bodies
but not headers).  Hence a manual inter-folder tool like this seems to describe
would definitely have uses.

Comment 6

[Aleksey Nogin]

Oh, OK, I agree. But if this feature is implemented, then resolving bug #9413
would not be as critical.

Comment 7

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

And vice versa.  I'd rather see the other one first, personally.

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

reassigning to naving

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This would kick ass. I just accidentally duplicated 4000 e-mails. :-/

Comment 10

[laurel]

*** Bug 139382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158032 ***

Comment 12

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate.

Comment 13

[Eyal Rozenberg]

How can this be a duplicate of bug 158032 if comment 0 says he wants to _hide_, not _delete_ dupes?

Comment 14

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, why would you want to hide duplicates, but not delete them? Bug 9413 also implemented a few other options...

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sounds like a bad idea. 
wontfix?

Comment 16

[David :Bienvenu]

Yeah, I think that would be confusing. But what would be nice is a way to find duplicates and manipulate them (e.g., select all duplicates, and then you could delete them). Probably add-on fodder.

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

already exist ... 
 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search?q=duplicat&cat=all&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=18&lver=any&atype=0&pp=20&pid=5&sort=&lup=

Comment 18

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Marking WONTFIX for hiding of the duplicates.  The real issue (to me) seems to be that we're duplicating messages, I assume there is a bug already for that.

Comment 19

[Eyal Rozenberg]

(In reply to comment #17)
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search?q=duplicat&cat=all&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=18&lver=any&atype=0&pp=20&pid=5&sort=&lup=

You rang? :-)

Anyway, what constitutes a dupe is kind of tricky, which is why my extension has a review dialog as the default. You compare different attributes of messages in different scenarios.