[Dovecot] Getting two mails.....

Nikolay Shopik shopik at inblock.ru
Thu Nov 22 10:21:28 EET 2007


On 22.11.2007 10:06, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mark Adams wrote:
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>> Switch to Exim4 for your MTA. It won't Append 2 files to the same 
>> directory if it can see they both route to you.
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> Well, I expect any MTA to deliver a mail just once, if two recipients 
> evaluate to the same mailbox. But to detect two deliveries in two 
> separate mails is another problem and, because MessageIDs are not as 
> globally unique as they should, there is no fail-proof method in order 
> to detect them.
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> Bye,
>
Well in case for example dovecot mail list when you reply by pressing 
reply all, it generate same message-id for these two messages. Anyway 
I'm agree with you, we can't be sure for all such cases.


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