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to: Dale Shipp
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2004-04-10 22:35:54
subject: Dupe checking

Dale Shipp wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Re: Dupe checking'':

Hi Dale,

 BS>> They got different MSGID so squish wouldn't juge it as dupe 
 BS>> normally, but there is a bug with dupe detection in the 
 BS>> current release. 

 DS>   Not so.   Squish has the ability to use two different sorts of  
 DS> duplicate checking.   One is based on MSGID.  The other is based on
 DS>   the header info (TO, FROM, SUBJ and DATE).  If *either* of these
 DS> two   things is a match, then Squish calls the message a dupe.  

Yes you may be right, I've not looked specifically in the code of that area.

 DS> Hence if   someone happens to send a bunch of messages to the same
 DS> person, all   with the same subject and the same date/time stamp
 DS> then squish will   call all but the first a dupe if that option is
 DS> set.   Since some   systems do Y2K protection by inserting the
 DS> date/time of upload, this   can cause a problem.

Yes but not in Hans's issue.

Bo

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