On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:06:03PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
> How does that work?

       -D maxlen idcache
            Formail  will  detect if the Message-ID of the current message has
            already been seen using an idcache file  of  approximately  maxlen
            size.  If not splitting, it will return success if a duplicate has
            been found.  If splitting, it will not output duplicate  messages.
            If  used  in  conjunction  with  -r, formail will look at the mail
            address of the envelope sender instead at the Message-ID.

This from formail's man page.  The magic is all done in there.  The flags
used by procmail will feed the message header to formail.  If formail has
seen the message, it will return success.  Procmail will then consider the
message to have been delivered, effectively throwing it away.

If the message has not been seen, formail will return failure, and
procmail will fall through to the next applicable recipe.

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