process(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us (Eli the Bearded)
wrote on
Sat, 12 Jul 97 20:16 EDT in
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(I want a very large cache because I get maybe 3500 messages a week
passing through this rc file and I want to cache at least a full week.)
I whipped this up rather hastily:
# the dir where all my procmail stuff goes
PROCDIR=${HOME}/.procmail
ID=`formail -xMessage-ID:`
# if the message ID is found, add it to the mailbox 'Dups'
:0W: .mesg.lock
* ? fgrep -s "${ID}" $PROCDIR/messageids.txt
Dups
# otherwise, dump the ID to the database and continue
:0EWhci: .mesg.lock
|/bin/echo "${ID}" >> $PROCDIR/messageids.txt
Oh.... and then we have to trim it.... forgot about that.... Howabout this:
In Sunday night's crontab, put this:
tail -3500 /path/to/messageids.txt > /path/to/messageids.txt.new && \
mv -f /path/to/messageids.txt.new /path/to/messageids.txt
which isn't the best solution (because there may be some message that
arrives as this is being done. The workaround for this would to use a
lockfile I guess, but I don't know that much about it...
It's a hasty solution, as I said, but it seemed to work with the 3 messages
I tried it with ;-)
TjL
ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so
please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2
semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits
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TjL <luomat(_at_)peak(_dot_)org>