On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 21:31 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > On 12/15/2011 10:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 12/14/2011 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > >> If I recall correctly, you had another incident of getting multiple > > >> copies for another individual. Are you by any chance sorting incoming > > >> emails into folders using rules? > > > > > > No. With the exception of spam, everything goes into the Inbox and is > > > read in the order received. The headers of the message claimed that > > > it was sent to this list, and the list was also listed in the CC line, > > > prompting my reply as it looked intentional. > > > > OK.... Well, I would still wonder why you are getting 2 copies and I am > > getting only one. If it was a sender issue then I would expect everyone > > on this list to be getting 2 copies. > > > > I am generally against using the list as a "test bed" but I've added > > Fedora into the Cc: I will verify that only a single message goes out > > from my mail server (I fully control my mail server) and I will verify > > that I only get one copy of this message back from the list. Maybe you > > can then verify how many copies of this email you are getting? > > Mail clients differ. It's quite possible that yours would filter out > duplicate addresses and somebody else's would not. (It's also possible > that the list server would filter duplicates.) ---- not to mention IMAP servers - of which I use Cyrus-IMAPd and it definitely has 'duplicate suppression' Ed pointed out that you can easily inspect the 'headers' in virtually all e-mail programs and identify SMTP/eSPMTP id's that are unique to each message and thus only a true duplication would have 2 messages with identical id's. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
