Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:24:03 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple copies of messages Message-ID: <20021115042403.GA871@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20021114224831.GC1054@gothmog.gr> References: <20021112210644.GA1585@raggedclown.net> <20021114224831.GC1054@gothmog.gr>
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:48:32AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-12 22:06, Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> wrote: > > For some time now I have been receiving duplicate copies sent to > > this list and the other BSD ones I susbcribe to. Somethimes they > > arrive together and sometimes the second one somewhat later. Is > > anyone else suffering from this ? > > This is not really a reply to your question, but a trick that will > save you some of the trouble these duplicates cause. > > I wouldn't notice it if I did receive any duplicates. I have been > running procmail as a basic filtering .forward file recipe with the > following rule in my ~/.procmailrc file: > > # -- > # Remove duplicate messages using Message-Id caching. > > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 327680 msgid.cache > > With a 320 kb cache for Message-Id headers, I hardly (if ever) get any > duplicate messages anymore. > Yes, I di have that in my .procmailrc, somewhere along the line I must have got rid of it by accident. Re-instating it works a treat. The dups are caused by people either cross-posting to more than 1 FBSD list, or TOing me and CCing the list. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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