On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Daniel Gonz�lez Gasull wrote:
## Duplicated messages:
# If you are subscribed to several mailinglists and people
# cross-post to some of them, you usually receive several
# duplicate mails (one from every list). The following sim-
# ple recipe eliminates duplicate mails. It tells formail
# to keep an 8KB cache file in which it will store the Mes-
# sage-IDs of the most recent mails you received. Since
# Message-IDs are guaranteed to be unique for every new
# mail, they are ideally suited to weed out duplicate mails.
HI ALL;
I have this recipe in my file, but it does not always work. For example
I'm on a stamp hobby list. This list is crossed with two others. Most
times this recipe will catch the dups. But if they are not identical I get
both (or more) on the list. I've noticed that the posts are always a few k
different. Any ideas what to do?
# Simply put the following recipe at the top of your rcfile,
# and no duplicate mail will get past it.
:0 Whc: .msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache
:0 a:
duplicates
## end Duplicated messages
TIA!
JIM
