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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:17:33 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "talk" appears broken!
Message-ID:  <19990913231733.A21546@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990913223330.A9623@infoteam.com>; from Kenn Martin on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:33:30PM -0400
References:  <18089.937241568@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <003a01befe24$b8aa5140$0100a8c0@greg> <19990913223330.A9623@infoteam.com>

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Kenn Martin <kmartin@infoteam.com> probably said:
> Procmail is your friend ;-)
> 
>  ### remove duplicate messages
>  ###
>  :0 Wh: msgid.lock
>  | formail -D 32768 $HOME/.tmp/msgid.cache

Not to drag the thread off sideways, but that method is a really
bad plan. Messageids are not always unique (there are several M[UT]As
that have been shown to not produce unique ids).

If you want to try and remove dups from mail (which isn't a good
plan in general) you need to work on hashes of message contents or
similar.

P.

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pir               pir@pir.net      pir@shore.net      pir@net.tufts.edu



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