On 13-04-2001 at 15:54, Pete P kindly wrote:
> What happened was that I lost sixty messages that were NOT duplicates,
> all from same person. From his later messages I have discovered that
> all his messages have the same message-ID!! (..)
That is a serious error on his part. Message-IDs are *meant*
to be unique.
> It would have been nice if TB! had told me *what* were the
> messages it was about to kill... showing the basic "from" and
> "subject" info for instance.
Would be a nice option, indeed.
Have you tried to browse that particular folder for deleted
messages? You might be able to salvage them that way...
> Now it seems to me that the message-ID isn't a very
> reliable way to determine which messages are duplicates...
It is the only reliable way. But there is no way that TB can
foresee that somebody will, agains all RFCs, start using the
same message-ID over and over again...
- K -
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