[Dovecot] On-delivery deduplication?

[Tom Hendrikx]

On 08/06/11 23:46, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Hello Tom,
> 
> Tom Hendrikx <tom at whyscream.net> (Wed Jun  8 23:17:29 2011):
> (…)
>>> OTOH, if you need such feature, it shouln't be too challenging to write
>>> a MDA replacement, that decides about duplicity and finally passes the
>>> remaining messages to the Dovecot MDA.
>>>
>>
>> This happens because the person replying uses either the reply, or the
>> reply-to-all button in his MUA. The MUA should honour the headers of the
>> message it replies to, and most of the time MUAs do that.
> 
> I understand what you're explaining. But I do not understand how it is
> related to duplicated messages.

The point is that when you set the headers correctly on your message, a
reply from someone on your message will not generate a duplicate in the
first place, thereby eliminating your problem even before it exists :)

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Regards,

	Tom