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icon5.gif   Proxy Error, posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jan 13 10:59:44 2010 
    icon2.gif   Re: Proxy Error, posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jan 13 11:15:10 2010 
       icon2.gif   Re: Proxy Error, posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jan 13 11:17:39 2010 
          icon2.gif   Re: Proxy Error, posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jan 13 11:19:59 2010 
             icon2.gif   Re: Proxy Error, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jan 13 11:34:51 2010 
                icon2.gif   Re: Proxy Error, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jan 13 11:39:23 2010 Capture.png
                   icon2.gif   Topic changed to: emails sent/received after edited entries., posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jan 13 12:00:04 2010 
                      icon2.gif   Topic changed to: emails sent/received after edited entries., posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jan 13 12:18:54 2010 
                         icon2.gif   Topic changed to: emails sent/received after edited entries., posted by David Pilgram on Wed Jan 13 12:27:32 2010 
Message ID: 66684     Entry time: Wed Jan 13 12:27:32 2010     In reply to: 66683
Icon: Reply  Author: David Pilgram  Author Email: David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk 
Category: Info  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.8 
Subject: Topic changed to: emails sent/received after edited entries. 
> > > > > I only got one email in response to the second entry of this thread, no email was received after the edit of the entry.  The
> > > > > next email received was due to the third entry of this thread.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, let me try (sorry to all the users who subscribe to this forum for pestering you...):
> > > > 
> > > > 1st reply to your entry.
> > > > 
> > > > 1st reply edited.
> > > 
> > > I got two email notifications, the second one I attached as a screen shot. So I don't know what happened in your case. The problem 
> > > with the proxy is sometimes related to slow internet connections. If the HTML code transported over the internet has some delay 
> > > between packets, the proxy server sometimes drops the connection. I don't know how to fix that in my Apache. If you edit in HTML, 
> > > your browser downloads the JavaScript code and icons for the edit window, which is a lot of data, so the dropping is much more 
> > > likely.
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I confirm that this is a slow internet line, so that explains the Proxy Error.  
> > 
> > Maybe I should just keep my head down on threads where people use html coding ;-)
> > 
> > Did you receive two emails to my entry 66677?  I only received one.
> > 
> > I only received one email to your posting 66680 - the first entry, not the edited version.
> 
> I checked my email server and found that the second message really went though it. But then I realized that there is indeed the "Message-
> ID:" in the email header (which I completely forgot in meantime). So maybe George Paplexis is right in that some mail 
> server/forwarder/receiver ignore a second email if it has the same ID. That would mean however that I have to introduce a "revision 
> number" for elog entries, which gets incremented on each edit and gets attached the the message-ID, so that it becomes unique again. 
> That's quite some work and has to wait a bit.

I had come to the same conclusion about the mail header being the same (see my email to you for full details).  

Sorry to all your subscribers for the email ping pong, although if others did receive two emails on the relivent entries - one original, and
one edited, it would be interesting, if possibly now academic, to know.
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