Hello P-O
On 01-Jan-01, you wrote:
>
>
> I have also this problem, but for the most of the time, the mails that
> disappear are spam, which for some reason got past the spam filter I have
> installed at my ISP. Every now and then, a real mail disappears, and it's
> quite embarrasing telling these people to resend, because my mail program
> ate their mail because the sender used a lame mailing software (which is
> mostly windoze programs).
>
> The reason that makes the mail disappear is that MD-II already finds
> another (spam, or something) with the same message-ID, and thinks that it
> already have that mail. The mail is never downloaded, just deleted from
> the server, so there is no way telling if it was an important message or
> not.
>
> Maybe MD should do a bit better dupe-checking than just relying on the
> Message-ID.. Like checking the Date: header or something similar, and if
> the ID is already in the db, maybe add something that makes the new
> mail's ID unique (timestamp) to the new mail header..
>
> Or, another option would be to have a "keep duplicates at server"
> setting, or "disable dupe checking" (but that will probably not work by
> just adding it, for some reason I think MD-II do only want one message
> with a specific ID)..
>
> Even when turning off the "delete from server", you won't get the
> messages that are considered duplicates, and not by importing the mail
> either..
>
> This requires probably a 5-minute fix for those who know the source code
> (Olliiiiiiii, pleeeeeeeeease fix it ! :) )...
>
> /PeO
YAM has a different take on this. If you leave the messages on the server,
you check avoid duplicates, but if you delete mail from server, you turn
it off so you get everything. This might work well in MicroDot too, as if
you delete the mail from the server, you really have no need for duplicate
checking. You might get a message twice, but that happens only rarely
anyway and usually they were duplicate sends, but at least you don't loose
any mail. It's mindboggling that importing my mail from YAM to Microdot
would result in loosing the same messages, so you are right, it has to be
in the basic program itself, and Ollie should fix it. That and if I could
sort mails by return address in the window, and I could dump YAM, though I
probably wouldn't.
Regards
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Mike Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] + team Amiga +
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