Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-16 23:19): >On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:55:49PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Larry Hall wrote (2004-07-16 21:19): >>Your email client *sets* Mail-Followup-To, so it must be pretty crappy >>to ignore it on inbound mail. > >This field is added by the ezmlm software that is used to manage our >mailing lists.
Ah, so he is just ignoring good advice given by the list software. Thanks for clarifying that. Sorry Larry, your mailer is not crappy. >>I've never seen an MDA recipe that deletes the *first* mail of an >>identical set. It's rather hard to do, too, since the MDA would have >>to remember where that first mail went. > >More things in heaven and earth, Horatio? > > From the procmailex manpage: > > If you are subscribed to several mailinglists and people cross-post to > some of them, you usually receive several duplicate mails (one from > every list). The following simple recipe eliminates duplicate mails. > It tells formail to keep an 8KB cache file in which it will store the > Message-IDs of the most recent mails you received. Since Message-IDs > are guaranteed to be unique for every new mail, they are ideally suited > to weed out duplicate mails. Simply put the following recipe at the > top of your rcfile, and no duplicate mail will get past it. > > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache I don't intend to install procmail to test this, but are you sure that this recipe deletes the *first* of the two mails? From the manpage, it looks like the second mail would be removed. Thorsten -- The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. - Noam Chomsky
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