Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:37:23 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: wiqd <wiqd@codelounge.co.za> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate messages (was: Somewhat OT) Message-ID: <20041117070723.GO28404@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1100675041.2600.5.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> References: <41995106.1000407@acm.org> <419A6243.6030406@siol.net> <1100672782.2600.2.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> <20041117064643.GN28404@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1100675041.2600.5.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za>
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--wHh0aNzodMFDTGdO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Sequence corrected. On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at 9:04:01 +0200, wiqd wrote: > 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 > > You may find this strange, I actually got 4 copies of this message, > heh It would be interesting to know why. > No I have double checked, and I am only registered once. You don't appear to have looked at the headers. > Perhaps I should give Digest mode a whirl ? Perhaps you should look at the headers. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --wHh0aNzodMFDTGdO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBmviqIubykFB6QiMRAlgxAJ401lKLUd3xjgmWx3ku0Zeqq1QpgwCfX77l Z2XiM7mtR9fdHpx4fZ7i4p8= =DE5e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wHh0aNzodMFDTGdO--
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