Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:24:09 +0200 From: wiqd <wiqd@codelounge.co.za> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duplicate messages (was: Somewhat OT) Message-ID: <1100676249.2600.12.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20041117070723.GO28404@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> <1100675041.2600.5.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> <20041117070723.GO28404@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [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. > I must apologise for not mentioning that I did look at the headers of all the previous 4 messages, all of which returned no changes. > > Perhaps I should give Digest mode a whirl ? > > Perhaps you should look at the headers. > I also used diff(1) on the headers of your last messages, of which again I recieve 4 duplicates, and still no differences where found. > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the > original text. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. Thanks for you help. Greg
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