From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 20:34:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from calumet.infoteam.com (calumet.infoteam.com [207.246.83.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3964A14D3F for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kmartin@infoteam.com) Received: (from kmartin@localhost) by calumet.infoteam.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10506; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:34:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kmartin) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:34:40 -0400 From: Kenn Martin To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! Message-ID: <19990913233440.A10404@infoteam.com> References: <18089.937241568@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <003a01befe24$b8aa5140$0100a8c0@greg> <19990913223330.A9623@infoteam.com> <19990913231733.A21546@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <19990913231733.A21546@pir.net> X-Uptime: 11:34PM up 2 days, 22:25, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:17:33PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Kenn Martin 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