How to never see dupes again (was: someone at ti.com - dups)

["Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>]

Sick of misconfigured majordomos, incessant cross-posters, and occaisional
operator error?

Put in .procmailrc:

# Use a cache of Message IDs received to avoid duplicate messages
# (i.e. same message posted to two [or more] mailing lists will be
# delivered only once [to first matching procmail rule.)
:0 Wh:.msgid.cache.lock
| formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache

Stephen

ObRandy: acc 101 d tcp any any eq smtp, acc 101 p ip any any

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
To: nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 20:43
Subject: someone at ti.com = dups


> figured i'd mention it, as your mailboxes are already aware.
>
> i've sent something to postmaster () merit edu also, hopefully
> they will squash asap.
>
> - jared
>
> --
> Jared Mauch  | pgp key available via finger from jared () puck nether net
> clue++;      | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/  My statements are only mine.