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Dangers of discarding duplicated messages Feb 17 2005 06:57PM
Adrian Bunk (bunk stusta de) (1 replies)

Re: Dangers of discarding duplicated messages Feb 18 2005 09:31AM
Maciej Soltysiak (maciej soltysiak com) (3 replies)

Re: Dangers of discarding duplicated messages Feb 19 2005 02:31AM
David F. Skoll (dfs roaringpenguin com)

Re: Dangers of discarding duplicated messages Feb 18 2005 11:42PM
Jon Keating (jonkeating gmail com)

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:31:50 +0100, Maciej Soltysiak
<maciej (at) soltysiak (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Users: Beware of the fact that automatic discarding of duplicated messages
> may result in you not getting the original mail in case someone exploits
> the effect Adrian depicted.
>
> Developers: Consider using checksum of the email messages, not only the
> Message-ID to distinguish between duplicated messages.

This makes me wonder about GMail. GMail does this "feature"
automatically and I don't see how to turn it off. I have never used
this, i have always deleted the dups manually as you said.

Jon

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Re: Dangers of discarding duplicated messages Feb 18 2005 10:57PM
Gene Rackow (rackow mcs anl gov)