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Using Procmail to stop repeats (was Re: triplets...)


From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () priori net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:30:25 -0800

On Nov 18, Marc Hurst <mhurst () fastlane ca> wrote: 

Is anyone else getting multiple copies of the same message?

Its kinda annoying....

# Get rid of repeats
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 $HOME/.msgid.cache

        When added near the top of your .procmailrc, that'll keep a
        cache of Message-ID headers and dump repeats.  I've been using
        it for years, no complaints -- and it helped a lot with the
        recent attacks on this list.

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