Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

[Tom <tom@abwaerts.be>]

* [27/10/2003 22:54] Monique Y. Herman <spam@bounceswoosh.org>:

> > Has anyone else experienced something like this?
>  
> How are you calling procmail?  If it's from a .forward, can we see that,
> too?

Well, initially, I thought it was from a .forward. Afterwards, I learned
that today's Debian/Exim configuration doesn't need a .forward to call
procmail. As soon as a .procmailrc file exists in the user's home
directory, mail will be handed over.

But there is indeed this .forward file, which pipes mail through
procmail: 

|/usr/bin/procmail

> I doubt that it's actually *mutt* displaying the message twice, but just
> in case, have you tried another mail reader?  Do pine or elm show
> multiple messages?

Well, I did to be able to reply to this... :-/ However, my mail is in
Maildir-format, and pine doesn't seem to like it (nor does elm, for that
matter).

At this moment (as at all others), several duplicate mails are in my
inbox. For instance, one written by Vivek Kumar, with a subject of "nfs
problem. When I have a look in ~/Mail/inbox/, I see -- indeed -- two
mails that are exactly the same...

However, the longer this takes, the more I'm beginning to feel a little
nervous, since it undoubtedly has to do with some misconfiguration of
mine.

Diff for the two messages of the above example spits out this:

 2c2
 <       ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=tom)
 ---
 >       ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=fetchmail)
 4,5c4,5
 <       id 1AEFQo-0006UD-00
 <       for <tom@localhost>; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:01:46 +0100
 ---
 >       id 1AEFP1-0006St-00
 >       for <tom@localhost>; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:59:55 +0100
 9c9
 <       for tom@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:01:46 +0100
 (CET)
 ---
 >       for tom@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:59:55 +0100
 >       (CET)

One of the messages seems to be delivered about a minute later than the
other, and it's obviously treated as a different message (exim-id's
differ). Me and my newbie-ness suspect it has something to do with the
first difference (ident=tom <-> ident=fetchmail). Could someone
enlighten me...?

Greets,
Tom
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