On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:27:43PM -0500, rfi from Rich Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Just a note:
> If you didn't have formail -D in your .procmailrc file
>
> To clear the dups try:
> ls -l mutt-l
> formail -q- -D 8192 id-cache <mutt-l >mutt-fixed
> mv mutt-fixed mutt-l
> # make sure to set the owners right
> chown ..... mutt-l
> chmod
>
> Then put formail in your .procmailrc
This is generally a good idea, but I just wanted to caution people that
if someone sends you mail from a broken mailer that generates the same
message-id more than once, this will throw away legitimate mail. I only
know of one mailer that used to do this sometimes, a little program
called mutt. :-) And it was only a problem if you invoked two mutt's
within a second of each other. However, a script using mutt to send
mail might well do this. The bug is long since fixed, but nonetheless,
be aware of the possible issues involved with this. There may be other
mailers out there that generate duplicate message-ids under more common
circumstances.
-Daniel
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Daniel Eisenbud
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