It doesn't seem that using reformail is going to work for my case.
Reformail looks for Message-ID's that are duplicates. In my case, the
Message-ID are not duplicates, just the subject and the body are the same,
so I need something that works on that level. The messages I'm trying to
limit are status messages generated by machines I'm monitoring...sometimes
the machines decide to send out 3000 or so messages in several minutes.
Each has a unique Message-ID because they are individually generates.
I'm going to look at the other duplicate eliminators on qmail.org, since
it seems they do some type of MD5sum on the message itself.
Any other ideas are welcome, or, perhaps I'm misunderstanding how
reformail works.
-jeremy
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Adrian Ho wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 03:30:55PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote:
> > <http://www.qmail.org/>, search for "duplicate", install and configure
> > accordingly for those users who don't want dups.
>
> After some more thought, maildrop has a utility (reformail) that makes
> the above unnecessary. For each user X who wants dups eliminated,
> ~X/.qmail becomes:
>
> | ! reformail -D 50000 .msg-ids || exit 99
> &X-delivery
>
> and ~X/.qmail-delivery contains:
>
> ./Mail/inbox/
>
> or however you want the non-dup mails handled.
>
> Read the reformail and dot-qmail man pages to understand how the above
> pipeline works.
>
>
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