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,
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