Re: removing duplicate posts
On Thu 20 Jul 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:52:28PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > >>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > Anthony> Or do something like, I dunno:
> > That seems a complicated way of saying:
> > # process mailing lists here
> > :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> > | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
> > Is there any benefit?
>
> That'd end up with all the messages going in your inbox and no in the
> lists, which is exactly wrong, at least for me. AFAICT, you need to add
> in a delay to make sure you actually get the mail from the list (since
> direct mails are almost always quicker than via a list).
I think you're missing the obvious: the contents of the message you
receive directly is the same as what you get via the list, besides a
couple of header lines... As long as you don't depend on the
X-Mailing-List header but instead (also) use TO to select list messages,
there's no problem. I've done this for a long time with great success.
However, I now use exim's filter instead of procmail and that can't
handle the "formail -D 8192 msgid.cache" construction. On the other
hand, this way there isn't any excessive forking.
Paul Slootman
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