cypht-org / cypht

Cypht: Lightweight Open Source webmail aggregator [PHP, JS]. Supports IMAP/SMTP, JMAP and soon EWS
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Duplicate email detector #611

Open marclaporte opened 2 years ago

marclaporte commented 2 years ago

For various reasons, we can end up with duplicate emails. Duplicates can cause extra work and confusion. Say you don't notice and you reply twice.

How does this happen?

There are cases where you want duplicate emails (and Cypht offers to move or copy an email to a folder):

In some cases, the duplicate detector may need to be more sophisticated, to find a near duplicate but not exact duplicate.

This could be a background task, so user is not slowed down.

This whole task is low priority, and we won't get to it soon, if ever. But for completeness, I like to have a task here.

marclaporte commented 1 year ago

Until we have something in Cypht, I sometimes run the delete email duplicate tool with https://www.claws-mail.org/