On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Dom Mitchell wrote:
> Just a thought which occured to me... One thing which is currently
> missing from the filter file capability is some kind of message-id
> database to prevent duplicate mails getting through. This is the one
> thing which stopped me switching from procmail last time. It would be
> kind of cute if you could say:
>
> if seen $message_id
> then
> seen finish
> endif
>
> Does this sound reasonable?
Do you suffer from lots of duplicate deliveries? This seems like a very
heavyweight approach for what shouldn't be a big problem. Or have I
missed something? You would also build up a very large file as time
passed...
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