duplicate suppression, sieve, loops, redirect and lost email

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Why can't the duplicate delivery suppression database only store the
> message ids of messages that _actually_ get kept in the message store?
> If a message comes in and is redirected by a sieve script, should the
> evidence of that message even be in the database at all?

If the database only kept a record of messages that had hit the mailstore,
it wouldn't prevent mail loops.  (Since mail loops, in general, don't
result from a message that gets delivered to the mail store).

-Rob

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