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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:37:23 +0200
From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>
To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: duplicate messages
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Hi,

	Have a look at procmail. There is some examples in the
procmailex man page on how to handle duplicates.

I'm going to try it myself.

Regards
Willem Brown

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 03:28:47PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> Is it possible to filter out duplicate messages? Example: I send a
> message to questions@freebsd.org, A. Someone replies, and cc's
> questions@freebsd.org. I then receive two messages sent to me by A.
> Someone at the same time, with the same subject, and the same size, (one
> to me, the other they cc'd the list). I am using Netscape Communicator
> for my email client, over POP3/Sendmail connection to a FreeBSD box, (I
> use netscape both from a FreeBSD desktop, and on a windows box -forced
> to :\). Since I check my mail from different hosts at different times,
> I'd really like to somehow do this from a server side script or
> something? Maybe a sendmail filter?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Vidican
> webmaster@wmptl.com
> Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
> http://www.wmptl.com/
> 
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