From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 21 20:34:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA18137 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 20:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (max2-129.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA18131 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 20:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.HiWAAY.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA24254; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 22:19:17 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199612220419.WAA24254@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Posting to multiple lists In-reply-to: Message from "Marc G. Fournier" of "Sat, 21 Dec 1996 17:38:34 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 22:19:17 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > Somewhat related, but from an 'end-user' viewpoint, I was finding > it annoying to receiving the same email in several 'filtered' mailboxes > because of cross posting. Using procmail to do the filtering, if anyone > wants to get around this, try at the top of your .procmailrc: One day I'll figure out why the gurus seem to prefer procmail over slocal. Meanwhile I managed to figure out slocal and .maildelivery before procmail and .procmailrc. A problem I have found with slocal is that it apparently does not lock files it writes to. Use fetchmail to download 100 messages via 28.8k PPP and some .mh_sequences files are liely to get whacko. Doesn't seem to be a problem if popclient is used, but I'm aware the potential is there. Maybe I've answered my own question? Asked a couple of weeks ago my slocal was not using its database to filter out duplicate messages. Tonight this thread prompted me to revisit the issue. "man slocal" says: Duplicate Message Suppression slocal is able to detect and supress duplicate messages. To enable this, create two empty files in your $HOME directory: .maildelivery.pag and .maildelivery.dir. These are ndbm files which are used to store the Message-IDs of incoming messages. nexgen: {1027} cd /usr/local/lib/mh nexgen: {1028} strings slocal | grep maildelivery maildelivery file only one maildelivery file at a time! .maildelivery.db .maildelivery /usr/local/lib/mh/maildelivery maildelivery _maildelivery Ok, now I get it, we use a different db than the man page writer. Checked the ports patches and found it there too. System is 2.1.6R. Appears to need a little man page patch. Tried "touch ~/.maildelivery.db", sent a message to myself, and found the .db file had grown. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.