Re: procmail mailing list strategy (was Re: vim procmail recipe)

[Lars Hecking]

> Here is how I deal with mailing lists in my .procmailrc:
 
>       # eliminate duplicate messages
>       :0Wh: msgid.lock
>       | formail -D 16384 archive/msgid.cache
 
 This is *bad*. If procmail fails somewhere after dupes checking and the
 message is requeued, the next delivery attempt will detect that message
 as duplicate and silently nuke it.

 Recommended reading: the c_o_m_p_l_e_t_e_ entry for duplicate filtering in the
 procmailex man page!