From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 20:51:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE80415147 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:51:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA08080; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:51:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA25950; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:51:43 -0600 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:51:43 -0600 Message-Id: <199909140351.VAA25950@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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