Have you considered accessing your GMail account with a good IMAP client=20
such as Thunderbird?

I receive full email contents.

But - I didn't receive duplicates.

Joe Koberg



On 9/17/2010 6:14 AM, RussellMc wrote:
>> I received the 'identical' message 9 times...
>> I just checked the headers, they all have the same message-id, which
>> basically means you did not send it 9 times, but, if I look in to the
>> headers, it seems that the mailman at MIT sent it 9 times (at least to m=
e).
>> I have 9 distinct 'Received from:' headers for the same message from the
>> mit servers.
>>
>> So, not your fault ... ;-)
> Interestingly, I received only one copy - using GMail.
> Highly likely that they delete  such genuine duplicates - possibly to
> reduce  bandwidth as much as providing  a service, as they have a
> number of other "bandwidth reducing", most not as benign as this one.
>
> eg - hide quoted material and very aggressively identify quoted
> material for hiding.
> - truncate long messages and ask if the rest is wanted.
> - Download of thumbnails only for pictures over a certain size.
> , ....
> The first makes selective quoting of messages more difficult.
> The second makes it easier to miss desired or important content.
> The 3rd is just annoying.
>
> When a "free" service limits features in an intrusive manner the
> response may be 'well, after all, it IS free", but they alienate their
> customer base as a consequence. Commercial choices as ever :-).
>
>
>
>       Russell
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