How to never see dupes again (was: someone at ti.com - dups)
Sick of misconfigured majordomos, incessant cross-posters, and occaisional operator error? Put in .procmailrc: # Use a cache of Message IDs received to avoid duplicate messages # (i.e. same message posted to two [or more] mailing lists will be # delivered only once [to first matching procmail rule.) :0 Wh:.msgid.cache.lock | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache Stephen ObRandy: acc 101 d tcp any any eq smtp, acc 101 p ip any any | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 :|: :|: NSA, Network Consulting Engineer :|||: :|||: 14875 Landmark Blvd #400; Dallas, TX .:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Pager: 800-365-4578 / 800-901-6078 C I S C O S Y S T E M S Email: ssprunk@cisco.com -----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 20:43 Subject: someone at ti.com = dups
figured i'd mention it, as your mailboxes are already aware.
i've sent something to postmaster@merit.edu also, hopefully they will squash asap.
- jared
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Sick of misconfigured majordomos, incessant cross-posters, and occaisional operator error?
Put in .procmailrc:
# Use a cache of Message IDs received to avoid duplicate messages # (i.e. same message posted to two [or more] mailing lists will be # delivered only once [to first matching procmail rule.) :0 Wh:.msgid.cache.lock | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache
Beware that while Message IDs are supposed to be unique, some clients do not actually guarantee uniqueness. We run the Cyrus local delivery agent, and used to have it configured to drop duplicate message IDs. However, we had complaints from customers not getting their email from certain people and upon investigation we found that the Message IDs were being reused. So, we reluctantly disabled this feature. Those mail clients may have been updated by now, but I am certain that some remain. Also, much of the time I see duplicates on mailing lists they get new message IDs as they pass through the list mechanism so it wouldn't help you anyway in those cases. John A. Tamplin Traveller Information Services jat@LiveOnTheNet.COM 2104 West Ferry Way 256/705-7007 - FAX 256/705-7100 Huntsville, AL 35801
"Stephen Sprunk" wrote:
Sick of misconfigured majordomos, incessant cross-posters, and occaisional operator error?
Put in .procmailrc:
# Use a cache of Message IDs received to avoid duplicate messages # (i.e. same message posted to two [or more] mailing lists will be # delivered only once [to first matching procmail rule.) :0 Wh:.msgid.cache.lock | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache
If you get as much mail as I do, you'll want to increase the size of the message-id cache to something along the lines of 16k or even 32k (I got about 2/3rds of the dupes because the message-ids had already expired out of my 16k cache). -cgw- -- christopher williams cgw@pobox.com nana korobi, yo oki fnord
At 09:48 18/03/99 -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Sick of misconfigured majordomos, incessant cross-posters, and occaisional operator error?
Put in .procmailrc:
Use Listserv. Majordomo doesn't hold a candle to the features (loop checking, spam busting) that Listserv has. -Hank
# Use a cache of Message IDs received to avoid duplicate messages # (i.e. same message posted to two [or more] mailing lists will be # delivered only once [to first matching procmail rule.) :0 Wh:.msgid.cache.lock | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache
Stephen
ObRandy: acc 101 d tcp any any eq smtp, acc 101 p ip any any
| | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 :|: :|: NSA, Network Consulting Engineer :|||: :|||: 14875 Landmark Blvd #400; Dallas, TX .:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Pager: 800-365-4578 / 800-901-6078 C I S C O S Y S T E M S Email: ssprunk@cisco.com
-----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 20:43 Subject: someone at ti.com = dups
figured i'd mention it, as your mailboxes are already aware.
i've sent something to postmaster@merit.edu also, hopefully they will squash asap.
- jared
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 12:50:28AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
At 09:48 18/03/99 -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Sick of misconfigured majordomos, incessant cross-posters, and occaisional operator error?
Put in .procmailrc:
Use Listserv. Majordomo doesn't hold a candle to the features (loop checking, spam busting) that Listserv has.
I've found that smartlist works the best. (at least in my experience) - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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Stephen Sprunk