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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:37:23 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        wiqd <wiqd@codelounge.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Duplicate messages (was: Somewhat OT)
Message-ID:  <20041117070723.GO28404@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1100675041.2600.5.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za>
References:  <41995106.1000407@acm.org> <419A6243.6030406@siol.net> <1100672782.2600.2.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za> <20041117064643.GN28404@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1100675041.2600.5.camel@fyre.codelounge.co.za>

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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]

Sequence corrected.

On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at  9:04:01 +0200, wiqd wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:46, 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 ?
>>>
>>> I have tried everything I can think of, however I still get duplicate
>>> messages.
>>>
>>> Is there something I have missed ?
>>
>> Examples, maybe?
>>
>> It's a convention in most FreeBSD lists to reply to both the list and
>> the sender, so you should get two copies of this list, one directly
>> from me and the other from the list.  That should be evident from the
>> headers.  If you get three, then there's a chance that you're
>> subscribed under two different names.  Again, the headers will tell
>> you more about what's going on.
>>
>> 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
>
> You may find this strange, I actually got 4 copies of this message,
> heh

It would be interesting to know why.

> No I have double checked, and I am only registered once.

You don't appear to have looked at the headers.

> Perhaps I should give Digest mode a whirl ?

Perhaps you should look at the headers.

Greg
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