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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:42:35 +0900
From: Jon Keating <jonkeating@...il.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Dangers of discarding duplicated messages
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:31:50 +0100, Maciej Soltysiak
<maciej@...tysiak.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
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