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Re: [fetchmail] multidrop problem

2003-10-12 08:38:52
Matthias Andree <ma(_at_)dt(_dot_)e-technik(_dot_)uni-dortmund(_dot_)de>:
In 6.2.5 the dup killer will key on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.

It's a step in the right direction, but you can as well remove the dupe
check, since in any _working_ multidrop setup, the MD5 of two messages
will always be different: the "envelope" header will differ.

The dup checker is only active if there is no envelope header.

I question the need for duplicate suppression at large. What behaviour
is duplicate suppression supposed to fix? It only covers up
misconfigurations, when fetchmail wrongly resorts to parsing To:/Cc:
headers to figure recipients.

If there is no envelope header that's not a misconfiguration.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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