Re: MessageID's again...

From: Ed Carp <erc_at_khijol.org_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:32:37 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910041731400.12158-100000_at_khijol.org>

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> Kent Landfield wrote:
>
> > Was it obvious from the other message headers that they came from
> > the same site ? Or did a memory problem mess up a mailer and a
> > software glitch occur ?
>
> All of the discarded messages came from the same site as the prior
> message (the same author replying to different posts), so yes. I can't
> tell whether it's a software glitch or not, but like you said, there are
> way too many misconfigured MTA's out there.

I've seen this before. Instead of using the Message-ID field as a unique key, I run a checksum on the message.

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