On (19/05/04 06:40), Tom Allison wrote: > Lee Braiden wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm getting a lot of duplicate emails occasionally, as my ISP's POP3 > >server seems to drop connections a lot :/ I've tried both fetchmail > >and getmail, with no luck. Best I've managed is to limit the number of > >mails retrieved in one run, as a sort of poor man's transaction :) > > > >So, two things: any other way I can avoid this problem, and... are > >there any programs that can scan a maildir (maybe recursively) and > >delete dups? > > > >Thanks :) > > > > procmail is your friend... > > # remove duplicate emails > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache The default behaviour for exim4 is to eliminate duplicates (according to the official guide) - I would guess that exim3 is similar.
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