spaceman <spaceman@antispaceman.com> wrote:
> Michael Richardson wrote:
>>
>> Due to the way that IETF lists and aliases work, I often get two, three
>> sometimes four copies of an email. I attach a mh-e view of a thread
below.
>> I really want to just keep the copy that went through the list, because
>> that's the one that went into the public archive, and replies will work
>> better on that version.
>>
> I might be completely off the bat here, but wouldn’t something like
> formail (part of procmail) solve the probem of duplicates instead of
> trying to hack a system of perl.
Yes, assuming that it could operate over multiple days receiving email from a
variety of directions, and which arrive possibly through different mailboxes.
The direct emails can arrive long before the mailing list copy, or could be
delayed by spam/graylisting.
Generally, I wouldn't want to run this all the time, which procmail would force.
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