On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Kevin Francis wrote:
> I don't know why, but I find many duplicate messages in my Inbox AND in
> my fedora-* folders.
>
> It seems some of you are hitting `reply to all' or something like that.
> I hereby suggest to you, that you send ALL ML mail to the ML itself, and
> not to users, unless you have a question for the person, or persons
> involved.
I agree but you are fighting a loosing battle.
> I have to delete email every day, and it's getting tedious as traffic
> grows.
Procmail is your friend. It will kill dupes automagically if you set it up
correctly.
Something like the folloing will do it. This example is in the man page.
:0 Whc: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
:0 a:
duplicates
Be sure to read the man page so that you understand what this does.
An improperly configured procmail can eat large qtys of mail silently
and irretrievably.
man 5 procmailex for details.
Remember if you break it you get to keep all of the pieces.
HTH,
......................Tom
