Re: Duplicate message ids

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Christina Heikkila wrote:

> Please add messages with duplicate ids to the archive! At least in my
> archive, duplicate ids are pretty common: out of 677 messages, there were
> 84 duplicate ids (no, the messages didn't merely get resent by the server
> or anything, they were unique). Shouldn't archives keep every message
> that comes in?

They probably should. On the other hand mail systems shouldn't generate messages with duplicate message-ids :->.

I sent Daniel a patch last night that (amongst other things) replaces duplicate message-ids with locally generated unique ids. It uses a simplistic approach, and can mean that threading isn't perfect, but I think it's a step in the right direction.

If you are seeing lots of duplicate message-ids and you have some sort of control over the systems generating these messages then please (this is a general plea :->) complain to the suppliers and try to get them fixed.

Paul Received on Thu 13 May 1999 11:15:19 AM GMT