From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 20:17:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B46A14D5D for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 11Qj65-000663-00 for FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:17:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:17:33 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! Message-ID: <19990913231733.A21546@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <18089.937241568@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <003a01befe24$b8aa5140$0100a8c0@greg> <19990913223330.A9623@infoteam.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990913223330.A9623@infoteam.com>; from Kenn Martin on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:33:30PM -0400 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenn Martin probably said: > Procmail is your friend ;-) > > ### remove duplicate messages > ### > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 32768 $HOME/.tmp/msgid.cache Not to drag the thread off sideways, but that method is a really bad plan. Messageids are not always unique (there are several M[UT]As that have been shown to not produce unique ids). If you want to try and remove dups from mail (which isn't a good plan in general) you need to work on hashes of message contents or similar. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@shore.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message