diff --git a/database.sql b/database.sql
index ea1523e289..8cf7241790 100644
--- a/database.sql
+++ b/database.sql
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mail` (
   `contact-id` char(255) NOT NULL,
   `title` char(255) NOT NULL,
   `body` text NOT NULL,
-  `delivered` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
   `seen` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
   `replied` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
   `uri` char(255) NOT NULL,
diff --git a/include/notifier.php b/include/notifier.php
index dde538a6b1..8710274185 100644
--- a/include/notifier.php
+++ b/include/notifier.php
@@ -313,14 +313,6 @@
 				}
 				break;
 		}
-
-
-		if(($cmd === 'mail') && ($deliver_status == 0)) {
-			$r = q("UPDATE `mail` SET `delivered` = 1 WHERE `id` = %d LIMIT 1",
-				intval($item_id)
-			);
-		}
-
 	}
 		
 	// send additional slaps to mentioned remote tags (@foo@example.com)
diff --git a/mod/dfrn_notify.php b/mod/dfrn_notify.php
index 0a3dac2546..f0c4f0c643 100644
--- a/mod/dfrn_notify.php
+++ b/mod/dfrn_notify.php
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ function dfrn_notify_post(&$a) {
 		$msg['contact-id'] = $importer['id'];
 		$msg['title'] = notags(unxmlify($base['subject'][0]['data']));
 		$msg['body'] = escape_tags(unxmlify($base['content'][0]['data']));
-		$msg['delivered'] = 1;
 		$msg['seen'] = 0;
 		$msg['replied'] = 0;
 		$msg['uri'] = notags(unxmlify($base['id'][0]['data']));
diff --git a/mod/message.php b/mod/message.php
index 3f5b71cc2f..fa4af3f466 100644
--- a/mod/message.php
+++ b/mod/message.php
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ function message_post(&$a) {
 		$replyto = $uri;
 
 	$r = q("INSERT INTO `mail` ( `uid`, `from-name`, `from-photo`, `from-url`, 
-		`contact-id`, `title`, `body`, `delivered`, `seen`, `replied`, `uri`, `parent-uri`, `created`)
-		VALUES ( %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, '%s', '%s', %d, %d, %d, '%s', '%s', '%s' )",
+		`contact-id`, `title`, `body`, `seen`, `replied`, `uri`, `parent-uri`, `created`)
+		VALUES ( %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, '%s', '%s', %d, %d, '%s', '%s', '%s' )",
 		intval(local_user()),
 		dbesc($me[0]['name']),
 		dbesc($me[0]['thumb']),
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ function message_post(&$a) {
 		intval($recipient),
 		dbesc($subject),
 		dbesc($body),
-		0,
 		1,
 		0,
 		dbesc($uri),
@@ -138,16 +137,6 @@ function message_content(&$a) {
 		}	
 	
 	}
-	if(($a->argc > 2) && ($a->argv[1] === 'redeliver') && intval($a->argv[2])) {
-		$post_id = intval($a->argv[2]);
-		$php_path = ((strlen($a->config['php_path'])) ? $a->config['php_path'] : 'php');
-
-		proc_close(proc_open("\"$php_path\" \"include/notifier.php\" \"mail\" \"$post_id\" & ",
-			array(),$foo));
-		goaway($a->get_baseurl() . '/message' );
-	}
-
-
 
 	if(($a->argc > 1) && ($a->argv[1] === 'new')) {
 		
diff --git a/update.php b/update.php
index 57020966ff..9a829ce8b4 100644
--- a/update.php
+++ b/update.php
@@ -176,3 +176,8 @@ function update_1018() {
 `content` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL
 ) ENGINE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ");
 }
+
+function update_1019() {
+	q("ALTER TABLE `mail` DROP `delivered`");
+//	leaving open for more updates as this isn't critical enough to roll the build number
+}
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