Quoth David Baron: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > Quoth David Baron: > > > Would there be any script, option, or such to solve this problem in a > > > more elegant manner and leave things alone when the network is doing what > > > it is supposed to do? > > > > Depends. Are you using procmail, too? If so, you might be interested in the > > following rule I have in my .procmailrc: > > > > # Dupes? Nuke'em! > > > > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > > : > > | $FORMAIL -D 8192 msgid.cache > > > > That's it. All there is to it. Just put that little beast in and all > > duplicate massages will get deleted. > > Great. Just put it in. > $FORMAIL, I assume is a predefined macro for procmail? > msgid -- do I need to install this? >
No, $FORMAIL holds the location of the 'formail' program, most likely /usr/bin/formail (just type `which formail', to find out). msgid is nothing more than a name for the file the already-retrieved message-ids will get stored in, nothingadditional
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