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echo: fidonews
to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: PAUL HAYTON
date: 2015-09-26 22:40:00
subject: Re: Old mail

On 09/26/15, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...
 
 Wv>  PH> So what software did pick up the "issue"
 Wv> 
 Wv> It's in my PID kludge. ;)  (FMail)

Aha.. cool.

 Wv> In this case, no big deal. There were no real technical issues, only
 Wv> confused people. ;)

Yep :)

 Wv>  PH> Do we get many packets with those kinds of problems in them?
 Wv> 
 Wv> Not like this. But sometimes a /rescan goes wrong, and we get a couple of
 Wv> thousand old messages in some areas, which are not picked up by the dupe
 Wv> detection routines on most systems. Than it's nice when these are caught
 Wv> before tossing and exporting...

 Wv> That happend a couple of times in the past years, which made me
 Wv> implement the old mail detection in FMail, and has since caught a couple
 Wv> of those events.

..and (forgive my ignorance) you're the developer for FMail right? So that
was good you could enable such checking.

Best, Paul

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