Duplicate messages

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 17 20:20:31 PST 2004


On Wednesday, 17 November 2004 at  6:43:47 -0800, Thomas Lippert wrote:
> on 11/16/2004 10:46 PM 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 ?
> <<snip>
>> 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
>
> Thanks for that recipe suggestion, i believe mailman also has an
> option to control that from the list. I have just looked "Avoid
> duplicate copies of messages?" should do it also check out "Receive
> your own posts to the list?" if you do not wish to see your own
> posts.

Yes, that works for things you send yourself.  It won't work for
replies like this one, since one copy goes to you directly without
mailman knowing about it.

Greg
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