On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Jeffrey Honig <j...@honig.net> wrote:
> I have my fetchmail scripts ignore messages with a duplicate messageid > (using a history of messageids I've received during the last 30 days or so) > to avoid duplicate mail. Depends on what you mean by "duplicate". From a mail archiving perspective, you can have multiple messages with same message ID, but can be considered different messages, even if the "content" is the same. Example: Mail that is sent to individuals and mailing list(s). Mailing lists typically add additional headers (e.g. List-*) and custom footers, so the message that is received by list subscribers is not identical to versions received directly from the original sender. > It is probably too much to assume that everyone would not have duplicate > copies of a message with the same messageid. Some people may have valid > reasons for this. Archiving messages to mailing lists is a valid reason. > And there may be messages w/o a message-id. This is the case for draft messages in nmh. --ewh _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
