From: Paul Haldane (Paul.Haldane@newcastle.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 13 1999 - 03:57:10 CDT
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