Fedora 16's Performance
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Dec 15 03:36:18 UTC 2011
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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