[18856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dupes and Dates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Neill)
Wed Aug 19 18:00:02 1998
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:12:26 -0400
From: Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net>
To: James Rishaw <jamie@dilbert.ais.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199808190328.WAA15984@dilbert.ais.net>; from James Rishaw on Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:28:21PM -0500
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:28:21PM -0500, James Rishaw wrote:
> Here's how you get rid of duplicate email..
>
> at the beginning of your .procmailrc:
>
> --snip--
> :0 Wh: msgid.lock
> | formail -D 65536 $HOME/.msgid.cache
> --snip--
>
> Creates a message-id cache with up to 65k of message-id's for cache..
> eliminates dupes.. seeing an average message-id is 45 chars or so this
> will give you a cache of the last 1456 e-mail msg-ids.
..but unless you are as popular as Jamie Rishaw, 8k will probably do.
That's from the procmailex man page by the way. Everyone should be
required to memorize it. Nesting rules rock.
-chrz
