Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:34:40 -0400 From: Kenn Martin <kmartin@infoteam.com> To: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! Message-ID: <19990913233440.A10404@infoteam.com> In-Reply-To: <19990913231733.A21546@pir.net> References: <18089.937241568@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <003a01befe24$b8aa5140$0100a8c0@greg> <19990913223330.A9623@infoteam.com> <19990913231733.A21546@pir.net>
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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:17:33PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > 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. In theory, you are correct. In practice, the above rule works wonders. kenn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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