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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:50:21 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Thomas Lippert <tlippert362@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Duplicate messages
Message-ID:  <20041118042021.GQ28404@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <419B63A3.5050009@earthlink.net>
References:  <41995106.1000407@acm.org> <419A6243.6030406@siol.net> <1100672782.2600.2.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> <20041117064643.GN28404@wantadilla.lemis.com> <419B63A3.5050009@earthlink.net>

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On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at  6:43:47 -0800, Thomas Lippert wrote:
> on 11/16/2004 10:46 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at  8:26:22 +0200, wiqd wrote:
>>
>>> I know this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this list,
>>> but could someone please explain to me why I get 2 copies of every
>>> single message sent to the list ?
> <<snip>
>> To get rid of the duplicates, put this in your .procmailrc:
>>
>> # Avoid messages with duplicate Message-ID
>> :0 W: msgid.lock
>>> formail -D 65536 msgid.cache
>
> Thanks for that recipe suggestion, i believe mailman also has an
> option to control that from the list. I have just looked "Avoid
> duplicate copies of messages?" should do it also check out "Receive
> your own posts to the list?" if you do not wish to see your own
> posts.

Yes, that works for things you send yourself.  It won't work for
replies like this one, since one copy goes to you directly without
mailman knowing about it.

Greg
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See complete headers for address and phone numbers.

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