I am receiving a fairly high percentages of double messages recently--in the past 2 weeks or so--from the same sender, separated by anywhere from 2 to 6 minutes or so. I would guess about 5 percent, without actually counting. Maybe higher, certainly not less. Can something be wrong, and if so, can something be done to fix it? (I know that the list is not the place to post this, but I don't know where else, and surely SuSErs read the list.) --doug
--- Doug McGarrett
I am receiving a fairly high percentages of double messages recently--in the past 2 weeks or so--from the same sender, separated by anywhere from 2 to 6 minutes or so. I would guess about 5 percent, without actually counting. Maybe higher, certainly not less. Can something be wrong, and if so, can something be done to fix it?
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* Doug McGarrett
I am receiving a fairly high percentages of double messages recently--in the past 2 weeks or so--from the same sender, separated by anywhere from 2 to 6 minutes or so. I would guess about 5 percent, without actually counting. Maybe higher, certainly not less. Can something be wrong, and if so, can something be done to fix it?
procmail # ------------------------------------------------------- # remove duplicates ## from man procmailex examples ## # 12-13-2002 # ------------------------------------------------------- LOCKFILE = msgid.cache.lock :0 Whc: msgid.lock | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache LOCKFILE ### save duplicates in case of error :0 a: $MAILDIR/duplicates # ------------------------------------------------------- -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
The Wednesday 2004-10-20 at 22:34 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
### save duplicates in case of error :0 a: $MAILDIR/duplicates
I have tried something like that (I'd have to check to make sure), but it did not work. In the OP case, if the timestamp is different, it is not a duplicate. It usually is not, at least. If the msgid is different :-? In my case, I tried (time ago) : # :0 Whc: Tiscali_msgid.lock # | /usr/bin/formail -D 32768 Tiscali_msgid.cache # # :0 a: # duplicates # $HOME/Mail/in_tiscali_dups So what I do is purging them with the find dups function of balsa. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
* Carlos E. R.
I have tried something like that (I'd have to check to make sure), but it did not work. In the OP case, if the timestamp is different, it is not a duplicate. It usually is not, at least. If the msgid is different :-? ...
The procmail recipe that I posted *only* checks the msgID, nothing else. If the msgID = msgID, it handles as a dup, regardless. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
Doug McGarrett wrote:
I am receiving a fairly high percentages of double messages recently--in the past 2 weeks or so--from the same sender, separated by anywhere from 2 to 6 minutes or so. I would guess about 5 percent, without actually counting. Maybe higher, certainly not less. Can something be wrong, and if so, can something be done to fix it?
(I know that the list is not the place to post this, but I don't know where else, and surely SuSErs read the list.)
--doug
Perhaps not the case, but the only time I've seen this happening was at work with people using Lotus Notes, eventually it got sorted. It could be the user's mailserver or ISP at fault. Hey, this list is for help/sharing/learning, just that it has a SuSE slant mostly, so there has to be some latitude. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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