[Dovecot] Discard duplicate messages at delivery?

Nicolas KOWALSKI niko at petole.demisel.net
Tue Jan 12 17:39:53 EET 2010


Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to make dovecot's deliver discard duplicate messages?
>
> No, currently not.

Ok.

> BTW: "if two copies of a message with the same message-id and the same 
> envelope receipient are received."
> I know that MessageIDs are supposed to be globally unique, but one cannot 
> count on it.

I agree, but IMHO, most of the times it is ok, and by using a short
lifetime for the Message-IDS stored, the risk of having false
duplicates is even less important.

Thanks for your reply,
-- 
Nicolas


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