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Expand Up @@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ PDO is also used alongside retry receipts for normal decryption failures. On the
PDO requests are deduplicated — if a request is already pending for a given message, subsequent requests are skipped. Pending requests expire after 30 seconds. The deduplication cache uses phone-number JIDs as keys (not LID JIDs) to ensure the cache key matches the JID format in the phone's response.
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Separately from that 30-second in-flight cache, the client also gates placeholder requests for a message's whole session lifetime, so a redelivered `<unavailable>` stanza never asks the phone twice. **That once-per-message gate is keyed per sender, not just per `(chat, id)` ([#1319](https://github.com/oxidezap/whatsapp-rust/pull/1319)).** A message ID is chosen by the sending client, not the server, so two different participants in a group can pick the same one; gating on `(chat, id)` alone let the first participant's request silently suppress the second's, which then never got its content recovered. When a PDO response arrives, the client also checks that the pending request it matches actually names the same sender (comparing both the LID and phone-number spellings, since a group's own delivery may carry either) before trusting it — otherwise it rebuilds the recovered message from the response itself rather than risk dispatching it under the wrong sender's identity.

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P2 Badge Describe the bounded PDO memo lifetime

The pdo_requested gate does not last for the whole session or guarantee that a redelivery never requests the message twice. The documented cache contract is a 24-hour TTL with a 512-entry capacity (changelog/2026-06-11-pdo-once-per-message.mdx:12), so an expired or evicted entry allows another request during the same session. Describe this as a bounded memo cache, including expiration and eviction, rather than a session-lifetime gate.

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P1 Badge Split the PDO explanation into concise active sentences

This paragraph violates the repository's AGENTS.md writing rules: it uses passive constructions such as “is keyed” and “is chosen,” while the final sentence combines response matching, LID/PN comparison, attribution, and fallback reconstruction into one long sentence. Rewrite these statements in active voice and split each distinct behavior into a concise sentence.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L24-L25

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Rewrite the added paragraph in second person.

Line 623 uses third-person actors such as the client and a message ID. Rewrite the user-facing explanation with you as the actor where applicable. Keep code identifiers and protocol terms unchanged.

As per coding guidelines, **/*.{md,mdx} documentation must use active voice and second person (you).

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In `@guides/receiving-messages.mdx` around lines 623 - 624, Rewrite the added
paragraph in receiving-messages documentation to use second-person active voice,
replacing applicable third-person actors such as “the client” with “you” while
preserving code identifiers, protocol terms, technical details, and the existing
explanation.

Source: Coding guidelines

### Sent message retry (outbound)

When a recipient's device cannot decrypt your message, it sends a retry receipt. The client handles this automatically using DB-backed sent message storage:
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