Ken,
Thank you very much. That little recipe got slammed into the .procmailrc
file REAL quick. Awesome!
thanks again,
--
Mark
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ken Wahl wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else noticed that the messages are repeating themselves on the
> > list?
> >
> >
>
> A few but not too many, maybe 4-5/day. If they are identical messages
> with the same message id and you are using procmail, you can weed them out
> by adding the following as the first recipe in your .procmailrc
>
> :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
>
> This will create a message id cache file in your mail directory that is
> checked against before any mail is delivered to your inbox(es). Since all
> emails have a unique message id unless they are true duplicates or carbon
> copies then they will only make it through if the message id is not
> already in the cache file. If the message id matches one found in the
> cache then the message is discarded.
>
> I've been using it for the past couple of weeks and it works well,
> especially at removing list replies that are cc'd to the original author.
>
> The full documentation for the above is listed in man procmailex.
>
> HTH
>
