Some time around 7/27/2003 11:22:42, I think I heard Steve M. Sawczyn say:
> Hello DZ-Jay,
> Sunday, July 27, 2003, 11:13:53 AM, you wrote:
>>>> Oh, that's good to know. But still, can you tell me *how* they happen?
> A very uneducated guess, but I've seen dups come into existance when,
> for whatever reason, TB can't finish receiving mail from the mail
> server. In this case, it redownloads messages again during the next
> check. Certainly that doesn't happen often, but when it does, dups
> seem to result. Also, when I migrated from OUtlook to TB, I wound up
> with a ton of dups -- presumably OUtlook hadn't deleted messages off
> the mail server properly.
Thanks. Then may I suggest as a new feature that TB keep a list of
UIDLs of messages downloaded to avoid this situation, as other
less-advanced mail clients do.
> THe only other way I can think this might re-occur is if the original
> sender resent a message?
Does this actually happen and count as a dupe? I mean, my guess would
be that if the original sender resent the message, both messages would
have different server-arrival dates and different (unique)
Message-IDs.
dZ.
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