Autor: tron Fecha: A: hdm, ph10 Cc: exim-users Asunto: Re: Addition to filter file stuff...
>Philip Hazel wrote: >> 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...
>
>Unfortunately, I do. I frequently get sent several copies of mail
>from internal mailing lists, which are cc'd to me as well. What
>procmail (and slocal from MH) does is just use a fixed size cache
>(8K is the default), and rotate through that. The message-id's don't
>need to be kept long, probably only a day or two.
It is legitimate to receive a message multiple times, if there are
multiple recipients. To be correct, you would have to track both
message-Ids's and recipients and avoid duplicate delivery to the
same user from the same message ID.
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Ronald S. Karr
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