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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
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