Re: Dangers of discarding duplicated messages

[Jon Keating <jonkeating () gmail com>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:31:50 +0100, Maciej Soltysiak
<maciej () soltysiak com> wrote:
> Users: Beware of the fact that automatic discarding of duplicated messages
>        may result in you not getting the original mail in case someone exploits
>        the effect Adrian depicted.
>
> Developers: Consider using checksum of the email messages, not only the
>             Message-ID to distinguish between duplicated messages.


This makes me wonder about GMail. GMail does this "feature"
automatically and I don't see how to turn it off. I have never used
this, i have always deleted the dups manually as you said.

Jon