Re: [LI] List Repeatds

[Mrinal Kalakrishnan <mrinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

RAVIKANT K RAO typed:
> the giasmda mail system is *slightly* broken ....

I doubt that that's the problem - I'm getting the old duplicates even
with the LI digest!

> [ on more serious thought : some guy posted an amazing bit of code
> to plug into your .procmailrc | .muttrc and that actually checks
> your mails - scans thro' them etc. looking for duplicate message-ids
> etc... and deletes duplicates - will see if I can send that over
> some time...  ]

Here is the code to check for and weed out duplicates in incoming mail
from my .procmailrc:

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

:0 a:
duplicates
-----

Put that before all the recipes, and you'll be free of all
duplicates. formail maintains a cache (8192 bytes approx) of the
last message IDs, and if the incoming mail is a duplicate, it puts it
into duplicates. 

PS: This code was taken from procmailex(5).

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