Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:51:43 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! Message-ID: <199909140351.VAA25950@mt.sri.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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> > 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. Maybe, but I've been using it for 3 years now, and I *rarely* get duplicates. Probably less than a hundred in the time period, and I've got well over a million mail messages that have gone through my system, and it's removed thousands of duplicates. > 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. It's a great idea, because it actually works to remove *only* duplicates. Otherwise, you stand a chance of losing real email. (Most duplicates are caused from x-posting and such, and procmail does a *really* good job of removing the duplicates, regardless of what the mail program is doing...) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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