Re: duplicate emails

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (19/05/04 06:40), Tom Allison wrote:
> Lee Braiden wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm getting a lot of duplicate emails occasionally, as my ISP's POP3 
> >server seems to drop connections a lot :/   I've tried both fetchmail 
> >and getmail, with no luck.  Best I've managed is to limit the number of 
> >mails retrieved in one run, as a sort of poor man's transaction :)
> >
> >So, two things:  any other way I can avoid this problem, and... are 
> >there any programs that can scan a maildir (maybe recursively) and 
> >delete dups?
> >
> >Thanks :)
> >
> 
> procmail is your friend...
> 
> # remove duplicate emails
> :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache
The default behaviour for exim4 is to eliminate duplicates (according to
the official guide) - I would guess that exim3 is similar.

Regards

Clive

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