From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 07:03:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917AD16A4CE; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:03:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ctb-mesg5.saix.net (ctb-mesg5.saix.net [196.25.240.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E083543D39; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:03:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wiqd@codelounge.co.za) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (nngy-83-99.telkomadsl.co.za [165.165.83.99]) by ctb-mesg5.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C8335B52; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:03:12 +0200 (SAST) From: wiqd To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey In-Reply-To: <20041117064643.GN28404@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <41995106.1000407@acm.org> <419A6243.6030406@siol.net> <1100672782.2600.2.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> <20041117064643.GN28404@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-Id: <1100675041.2600.5.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:04:01 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate messages (was: Somewhat OT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:03:17 -0000 You may find this strange, I actually got 4 copies of this message, heh No I have double checked, and I am only registered once. Perhaps I should give Digest mode a whirl ? Thx for the response :) Greg On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at 8:26:22 +0200, wiqd wrote: > > I know this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this list, > > but could someone please explain to me why I get 2 copies of every > > single message sent to the list ? > > > > I have tried everything I can think of, however I still get duplicate > > messages. > > > > Is there something I have missed ? > > Examples, maybe? > > It's a convention in most FreeBSD lists to reply to both the list and > the sender, so you should get two copies of this list, one directly > from me and the other from the list. That should be evident from the > headers. If you get three, then there's a chance that you're > subscribed under two different names. Again, the headers will tell > you more about what's going on. > > To get rid of the duplicates, put this in your .procmailrc: > > # Avoid messages with duplicate Message-ID > :0 W: msgid.lock > | formail -D 65536 msgid.cache > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers.