Bug#268748: Importing mbox files prints many bogus "errors" about duplicate subject lines
* Daniel Burrows [Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:07:25 -0400]:
> (and if that's not what the dialog means, it needs
> to be rewritten so it actually says what it means)
I think this may be the case. I imported a 17M mbox, with of course
subjects repeated multiple times:
$ grep -i '^Subject:' /tmp/devel | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 4
117 Subject: Re: testing and no release schedule
127 Subject: Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification
164 Subject: Re: Spam in the lists out of control
415 Subject: Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge
I got the reported message exactly *once*. Then I did run (out of curiosity):
$ grep -i '^Message-Id:' /tmp/devel | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 2
1 Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0405121335560.21852@wr-linux02.rki.ivbb.bund.de>
2 Message-Id: <20040406162905.7CAEDD0A3E@postfix4-1.free.fr>
after some more testing, it really seems that you get a warning for
each duplicate Message-Id. so:
> "Duplicate message subject error when adding message to folder
> MBOX-debbugs in KMail"
could be reworded, or even not shown at all. but that would be a
wishlist bug.
> Now, last I checked, it was still legal to send and receive distinct
> messages with the same subject. In fact, this is encouraged when
> sending messages to mailing lists. So I don't think this dialog is
> appropriate at all.
it may even legal to have several messages with the same m-id...
cheers,
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