on Sun Oct 28 2012, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Dave Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> on Sun Oct 28 2012, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun-AT-gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:05 PM, David Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> I just set up my Gnus to put a copy of every message I send into my >>>> local "All Mail" box. GMail already puts a copy in my remote "All Mail" >>>> box. Then I ran mbsync, and didn't see the message twice in my local >>>> "All Mail." Did I get lucky, or does mbsync have a way to avoid >>>> generating duplicates of a message when it appears, via other means, in >>>> both local and remote mailboxes? Is this in fact just one more >>>> testament to mbsync's total awesomeness? >>> >>> I've did a similar "experiment" and my guess is: GMail detects >>> duplicate emails and stores them only once >> >> Actually it doesn't. I can see plenty of dups in my mail archive. > > Hmmm... In my case it did... > > Could you check the MD5 of both emails? Or even better make a diff > of them to see what is different? Nothing is different; their MD5s are identical. GMail's web interface doesn't show them of course, but I can see them in Gnus and Thunderbird. It's always possible they have different flags, I suppose... > Because I guess that the file your application saves in the > "all-mail" folder could be missing some headers that GMail adds itself > after sending and before storing it into the "all-mail" itself. Ah, but that *doesn't* happen, which was the point of my original mail. These duplicates came from somewhere else. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
