* Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-17 21:31:00 +0100]: > Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I think getmail does better than fetchmail if the network goes down > > > while it's polling the server: fetchmail has an annoying habit of > > > losing its fetchids when this happens, resulting in the delivery of > > > several hundred duplicate messages in my case. However, I don't care > > > about that so much any more as I have a procmail script to filter out > > > duplicates (using an MD5 sum of the message contents rather than > > > trusting Message-IDs). > > > > Would you share it? I would like such a thing. > > The start of my .procmailrc is below. The in-line Perl script removes > all header fields except Date, From, Subject, To and Cc. MD5 sums are > appended to $MAILDIR/MD5, so you should remove the beginning of that > file from time to time. Duplicates are sent to =dupes. It's not > efficient or elegant, but it seems to work.
Thanks. Looks quite nice. Nicolas
