Fedora 16's Performance

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 21:31 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> > > On 12/15/2011 10:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > > On 12/14/2011 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > >> If I recall correctly, you had another incident of getting multiple
> > >> copies for another individual.  Are you by any chance sorting incoming
> > >> emails into folders using rules?
> > >
> > > No.  With the exception of spam, everything goes into the Inbox and is
> > > read in the order received.  The headers of the message claimed that
> > > it was sent to this list, and the list was also listed in the CC line,
> > > prompting my reply as it looked intentional.
> > 
> > OK....  Well, I would still wonder why you are getting 2 copies and I am
> > getting only one.  If it was a sender issue then I would expect everyone
> > on this list to be getting 2 copies. 
> > 
> > I am generally against using the list as a "test bed" but I've added
> > Fedora into the Cc:  I will verify that only a single message goes out
> > from my mail server (I fully control my mail server) and I will verify
> > that I only get one copy of this message back from the list.  Maybe you
> > can then verify how many copies of this email you are getting?
> 
> Mail clients differ.  It's quite possible that yours would filter out 
> duplicate addresses and somebody else's would not.  (It's also possible 
> that the list server would filter duplicates.)
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not to mention IMAP servers - of which I use Cyrus-IMAPd and it
definitely has 'duplicate suppression'

Ed pointed out that you can easily inspect the 'headers' in virtually
all e-mail programs and identify SMTP/eSPMTP id's that are unique to
each message and thus only a true duplication would have 2 messages with
identical id's.

Craig



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