On 10/3/07, Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wolfram Schlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > * Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-03 19:12]:
> >> On 12:43 Wed 03 Oct     , Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> >> > And *please*, don't send such mails to this
> >> > list *and* to my address in addition.
> >>
> >> You can add a procmail rule to detect duplicates using a cache and
> >> checking Message-Id, with formail. Examples of this are all over the
> >> place. It's a useful rule to have for many reasons besides this.
> >
> > Yeah, but it's unpredictable *which* one of the two mails makes
> > it first onto my system, thus the one *not* sent to the list might
>
> Sigh.
>
> It is the same message, addressed To/Cc: you and/or the list, no matter which
> one is delivered first.  So just put all list(+private) filtering before
> personal filtering.
>
> E.g.,
>
>     # filter duplicate-message delivery; see procmailex
>     # "The more you know."
>     :0 Wh: msgid.lock
>     | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
>
>     :0 He
>     * ^(to|from|cc):.*gentoo-dev
>     lists/gentoo-dev/
>
>     # other public mailing lists (more general, least specific)
>
>     # other private filters      (less general, most specific)
>
>     # some might call the following 'inbox'...
>     :0
>     otherwise-unfiltered/
>
> --
> ...jsled
> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

What about those of us suffering with Outlook!??!

-Alec
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