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Re: [fetchmail] multidrop problem

2003-10-12 04:42:17
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr(_at_)thyrsus(_dot_)com> writes:

When fetchmail sees adjacent messages with the same message-ID, it
only removes the second and subsequent duplicates.

Note that the Message-ID is NOT a sufficient criterion for mail
duplicate filtering AND CAUSES MAIL LOSS.

The bare minimum is the tuple (envelope sender, envelope recipient,
message-id), so that mail that is sent to a mailing list and Cc:d to the
user is not lost. (I am filtering mail by envelope recipient, most of
this will however be unaffected since the "adjacent" hardly hits. Direct
mail usually arrives earlier than list mail.)

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Matthias Andree

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