hi, i am sorry i just quoted that message. i thought it might be interesting
for you. i should have introduced it better.
consider it, still, if you are interested...
martin,
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:11:38AM -0400, MaD dUCK postulated:
> > > when discussing as we are currently, could we take care only to reply
> > > to the list or only to the author but not both. it's not a biggy and i
> > > am a newbie here, so maybe i should not propose that, but getting the
> > > same mail twice can be annoying...
>
> > Simply add the following to your .procmailrc (if you use procmail):
> >
> > [SNIP]
> > # Throw away duplicates
> > :0Wh: .msgid.lock
> > | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > Now only one copy of the message will hit your inbox :)
>
> yes, but imagine the following scenario:
>
> mass mail comes at [EMAIL PROTECTED], so mailing list messages arrive
> here. regular mail goes through [EMAIL PROTECTED] now, i have fetchmail poll
> these accounts and forward it all to local qmail/procmail system. so personal
> mail arrives before mass mail also because mailing lists take a little longer.
> and mail is checked every minute to enable some procmail filters to take some
> action which might be time-critical. so procmail could weed out all mass mail
> by looing for listmail@... in the X-RCPT-TO header. but every mailing list is
> actually filtered separately, so whatever passes through all recipes is
> considered personal mail.
>
> now, i want to keep responses as part of the mailing list, not as separate
> personal replies, so i need to let the first fall through and keep the second
> one, which arrives later. i don't want to rely on From or To/Cc headers.
>
> one thing i was thinking off might work if in procmail recipes, the different
> /^*/ lines are evaluated much like the C || or && operators, i.e. the second
> test is not performed if the first one failed. because then i could place
> one recipe right at the beginning checking for the X-RCPT-TO header, and only
> if present will is pass through the formail check, and after the lists before
> writing personal mail, check the formail filter and then discard the message
> if it is a mass message. but then i think about this temporally with the
> assumption that the personal email will arrive first, and my logics defeat me.
>
> so sorry for cross-posting this to the security list where this thread started,
> but this may be an interesting challenge to everyone. maybe of course i am just
> dumb and this is easy.
>
> martin
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> (greetings from the heart of the sun)
>
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