Re: [PATCH] Mailman solution to Cc:s to users on mailing lists
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:05:03PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
> What's really needed is a script which compares the message bodies to
> those of recently received messages. Has anyone written it? It's not that
> easy - it needs to take some things into account, such as extra "to
> unsubscribe,..." messages added by the mailing list software, and received
> messages moving from your Inbox to some kind of archive. Ideally, it also
> shouldn't need reconfiguring for each new mailing list that you subscribe
> to.
Since Message-IDs are guaranteed unique, simply comparing those will work
better than trying to fuzzy-compare message bodies. The 'formail' utility
which is packaged with procmail has a handy mode for maintaining a hash db
of Message-IDs.
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- mdz
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