perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

Szymon Trocha wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jason Zurawski wrote:
>
> > To my knowledge the Internet2 mailing lists (SYMPA software) don't try
> > to parse out the CC/TO fields to eliminate duplicates, but I can ask our
> > support staff to investigate the issue if you would like.  I also agree
> > its annoying to see groupings of messages each morning from the same
> > peoeple sent at the same times :)
>
> Would be great!

This filtering is MUCH easier done by the receiver.

Any filtering application that can run formail can remove duplicates with 
something like:

formail -D 8192 msgid.cache

I personally use this in procmail:

# weed out duplicate messages, first thing
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 $CACHEDIR/msgid.cache

I know MANY people that have filtering/ordering options in their mail client to 
allow them to read and deal with email directed specifically to them before 
dealing with email lists. This is a very normal thing.

jeff