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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Hope this isn't off the wall but, could this be done by what ever
> application is retrieving your mail?  (assuming Gnus is not) Mail

FWIW, I have seen fetchmail doing this, the version that comes with
redhat 5.1. Both times I upgraded it and the problem seemed to go
away.

> shipping.  Consider a message from an advertiser and after that
> message an urgent message from your boss, you delete the message from
> the advertiser without reading it and consequently delete the message
> from your boss and get fired. :)

Or as happened to a friend who's just switched to gnus: 
he replied to a work message, citing the original, which unfortunately
had a porn advertisement merged with it due to a >From header.

Could gnus prevent or warn about such inadvertently merged messages ?
It happens more often than one might expect. Maybe it would be
practical only in this special case.
.