Re: Misconfigured mailing lists (was Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts)

[jon <jon snoopy net>]

Previously, Brandon S. Allbery (allbery@ece.cmu.edu) said:

[snip]

> Before we get tired of using procmail to hack around broken lists?

First off, I can't imaging anyone getting hundreds of emails
a day and _not_ using procmail, let alone complaining about using it.
procmail is godly.

For the generic dupes (from man procmailex):

       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.
       Simply put the following recipe at the top of your rcfile,
       and no duplicate mail will get past it.

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

Of course, I get dupes when people reply to me where the copy to the
list goes into the list folder, and the copy to me goes into my inbox.

I guess I don't post to a list enough for deleting those to annoy me.

-j

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