On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:26:10AM -0800, Daniel Eisenbud
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is generally a good idea, but I just wanted to caution people that
> if someone sends you mail from a broken mailer that generates the same
> message-id more than once, this will throw away legitimate mail. I only
> know of one mailer that used to do this sometimes, a little program
> called mutt. :-) And it was only a problem if you invoked two mutt's
> within a second of each other. However, a script using mutt to send
> mail might well do this. The bug is long since fixed, but nonetheless,
> be aware of the possible issues involved with this. There may be other
> mailers out there that generate duplicate message-ids under more common
> circumstances.
Sorry to reply to my own message, but I read the end of that thread
last, and didn't notice that most or all of the procmail recipes posted
actually do save the duplicates to another folder. So that nullifies
most of what I said above.
-Daniel
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