Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Describing archives (new feature at the mirror)

[Sri Ramkrishna]

I use this in my procmailrc and I've never had a problem.  Assuming you
have a mail machine that uses unix or something:

:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache


sri

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 00:45 +0100, Julian T J Midgley wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> >
> > The only sane place where it can be fixed is at the sender
> > end. Removal of duplicates without opening trivial DoS attacks against
> > your mailbox is impossible.
> 
> This is arrant nonsense.
> 
> > By the time the duplicate mails reach the destination, they have been
> > significantly munged by the MLM; this list runs on mailman, which is
> > spectacularly bad in this respect. Now which one are you supposed to
> > deliver?
> 
> Erm, unless your MLM is spectacularly appalling (and mailman isn't (nor is
> any MLM that runs any list I've ever been subscribed to)) it won't alter
> the Message-Id header, which was, after all, designed to be unique per
> message.  So keep a cache of message-ids you've already seen, and throw
> any duplicates (arranging for your filters to drop the first copy of each
> mail into your inbox or mailing list boxes as you prefer).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
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> Julian T. J. Midgley                       http://www.xenoclast.org/
> Cambridge, England.
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