On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:07:35AM +0000, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Thomas Hurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Unfortunately, short of shooting anyone who ignores Mail-Followup-To, > > I don't think there's a workable solution. About the best way I can > > think of is on every list delivery, scan Inbox for the message id (and > > same/similar content if I'm feeling paranoid) and if it's found, nuke > > it. That's rather expensive though :) > > Actually, a better solution would be to do this filtering before final > delivery; have fetchmail deliver to a small agent which queues messages > for a minute and then weeds out dupes based on a few simple rules > (prefer one with ML-alike headers, for instance), before inserting it's > queue into the MDA. > > Hmm..
A better solution is to write an MDA that was not written with Klingons in mind (and I am not talking about regexps, they are inescapable) and doesn't *consume* system resources in the way procmail does. It is a project I am tinkering with, still at the stage of some ideas written with a pencil on a scrap of paper.. but maybe.. -- Regards Cliff
