diff --git a/zephyr/views.py b/zephyr/views.py
index 7932677616..0211311a7c 100644
--- a/zephyr/views.py
+++ b/zephyr/views.py
@@ -170,8 +170,6 @@ def zephyr(request):
         return json_error("Invalid field 'time'")
     return zephyr_backend(request, request.user)
 
-huddle_dedup = {}
-
 @login_required
 @require_post
 def forge_zephyr(request):
@@ -192,15 +190,12 @@ def forge_zephyr(request):
 
     if (request.POST['type'] == 'personal' and ',' in request.POST['recipient']):
         # Huddle message, need to make sure we're not syncing it twice!
-        huddle_val = hashlib.md5(request.POST['sender'] + "|" +
-                                 request.POST['new_zephyr'] + "|" +
-                                 request.POST['time']).hexdigest()
-        if huddle_val in huddle_dedup:
+        if Zephyr.objects.filter(sender=request.POST['sender'],
+                                 content=request.POST['new_zephyr'],
+                                 time=request.POST['time']):
             # This is a duplicate huddle message, deduplicate!
             return json_success()
 
-        huddle_dedup[huddle_val] = True
-
         # Now confirm all the other recipients exist in our system
         for user_email in request.POST["recipient"].split(","):
             try:
diff --git a/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py b/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py
index b1667b456d..48bc01c867 100644
--- a/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py
+++ b/zephyr/zephyr_mirror.py
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ def zephyr_to_humbug(options):
 def get_zephyrs(last_received):
         browser.addheaders.append(('X-CSRFToken', csrf_token))
         submit_hash = {'last_received': last_received,
-                       "mit_sync_bot": True}
+                       "mit_sync_bot": 'yes'}
         submit_data = urllib.urlencode([(k, v.encode('utf-8')) for k,v in submit_hash.items()])
         res = browser.open("https://app.humbughq.com/get_updates_longpoll", submit_data)
         return simplejson.loads(res.read())['zephyrs']