Re: [Exim] Exim Filters/folders

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Robert Lister
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim Filters/folders
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Robert Lister wrote:

> To: me@???
> cc: the-list@???
>
> My filter is set to find anything that's (To:Cc) to the-list.net
> and stash it in a folder.
>
> Unfortunately this results in the copy that was intended for me
> also ending up in the folder, and I get 2 copies in the folder.


Presumably the list expansion happens on some other host (otherwise
Exim's de-duplication would ensure only one delivery).

> Is there some fix for this involving message-ID's and things?


In Exim? Not that I can easily think of.

> (Procmail has an ability to cache the message-ID and if it sees the
> same message ID on a subsequent message, forget about it.
> so I only ever get to see one copy of the message in the folder, not
> two, which is what I want.)


... so you could run procmail. :-)

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