This often happens with multiple subscriptions to mailing lists, overlapping mailing lists, and mail bombs (like that time your coworker really wanted you to pay attention their new project... :-P)
Aaron On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Sorry I am not very deeply knowledgeable about the inner workings of email > systems or dbmail but is message-id something that is generated from the > email so that if two emails are the same they have the same message-id? > > The way I see it, even if I sent two emails with the exact contents to an > email account, one would get some randomly generated id and the other would > get a different one. The only way for multiple messages to have a same > message-id would be when you're sending one email to multiple accounts at > once. Anyway, this is how I see emails work so if this was the case then how > is it possible to have two messages with the same message-id sending to the > same account? > > >>If you send two identical emails (the same messege-id) to the same account, >>>then only the first one will show up in your inbox. The second one will be >>>silently dropped. Saving you the hassle of looking at the same email twice. >> >>The new storage model in 2.3 helps, if two accounts receive the same .zip >>>file as attachments to some mails, then the .zip attachment would be stored >>>in the db only once. Saving disk space on the server. >> >>Totally different features. >> >>HTH, > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > -- _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
