Subj : Re: dupe checking
To   : vorlon
From : apam
Date : Sat Jun 25 2022 05:50 pm

 vo> I've just done a git clone, will test and report back latter tonight.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm going to do a release of 0.41 as there are a few other (unrelated) bugs squashed, and I don't think the dupe checking will be any worse if not better.

I was wondering, maybe the messages are actually having the same message-id? And so getting treated as dupes by postie, but not by whatever is infront of postie.

I noticed when trawling through my dupes base on happyland that there were a lot of (mostly generated) messages with duplicate message ids. Stuff like BBS advertisements and stuff. 

My theory was that many msgids are generated by unix time, some are poorly implemented and may shoot of several different messages in a second, which some other more robust dupe checkers would notice because they work off the whole message not just message id, but postie did not.

Anyway, hopefully this new method will work better - and if it doesn't we can have a closer look at the messages and work it out.

Andrew

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