Hello Tom,
Tom Hendrikx <tom@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.
BTW and OT: the MUA agent I'm using (mutt) knows "list reply" feature, it works independent on From/Reply-To header fields. Using just "reply" in presence of a Reply-To header field, it asks if it's my intention to send the reply to somebody else than the originator. And it knows "group reply", that's the same as "reply all" in other MUA. And finally it knows a "bounce", sometimes known as "resend" - not to be confused with forward. It just lacks a shiny *G*ui.
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