On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 13:18:29 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 19:00:16 (+0000), Brian wrote: > > On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 08:32:32 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > > If it really worries you, the answer might be ~/.procmailrc and > > > > > > :0 Wh: $HOME/msgid.lock > > > | formail -D 199999 $HOME/msgid.cache > > > > > > I used it for years. > > > > So has Microsoft in Exchange. They use it to delete a user's mails > > silently. Emulating this on Debian is not to be recommended. It is > > sad to see this idea advanced here. > > The fact that someone abuses a method that you use yourself does not > invalidate that method. There's nothing sad about the method when > you've set it up ypurself.
So Microsoft is abusing the method but Debian system administrators who use procmail to do the same thing are not? But you have a good point. Users can do what they want with their own mail. That includes deleting it using the brain-dead idea that the same Messge-Id: indicates the same email. -- Brian.
