> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:48:04 +0100
> From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: A couple of probably dumb questions :)
>
> 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..
Hi Cliff,
have you checked out maildrop?
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