On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:43:41 -0800, 
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> David Megginson wrote:
>  > On my system, I use procmail to sort messages into separate lists.
>  > When someone crossposts to flightgear-devel and plib-devel (for
>  > example), both messages end up in the flightgear-devel folder,
>  > because that rule fires first, so it just looks like a duplicate
>  > posting.
> 
> Yup, user error. :)
> 
> David gets the cookie.  I do indeed use procmail to filter my mail,
> but normally this isn't a problem.  We use postfix as a MTA, which
> delivers multiple copies of messages when expanding aliases.  So I
> typically do see one delivery for each list.
> 
> But I have this recipe in my .procmailrc:
> 
> :0 Wh: .msgid.lock
> | formail -D 16384 .msgid.cache

..and look out for those line ends...

> Which (for those who aren't fluent in procmail) removes messages with
> a duplicate ID tag.  For messages that arrive from elsewhere, this is
> apparently rarely true.  But for messages that I send, it is.  Odd.
> 
> Andy
> 


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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



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