From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 20:24:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D438F37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85EC43E42 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18CY1d-00052I-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:24:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 82CFD4BFE for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:24:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id E4CCAB7F for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:24:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 9DA05225CC; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:24:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:24:03 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple copies of messages Message-ID: <20021115042403.GA871@raggedclown.net> References: <20021112210644.GA1585@raggedclown.net> <20021114224831.GC1054@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021114224831.GC1054@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:48:32AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-12 22:06, Cliff Sarginson 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