I was wondering if any of you have a small .procmailrc filter that
ignores duplicate mail with the same subject header. Mind you,
not based on msg-id.
Adding the following before any other recipes implements what you want:
SUBJCACHE=$HOME/var/subjcache
:0 hW :$SUBJCACHE.lock
|formail -R subject: message-id: -D 65536 $SUBJCACHE
jason
PS. I came across an interesting problem related to this the other
day. To avoid my mail bouncing whenever the relevant disk
partition is temporarily full, I passed procmail the -t switch
to cause a requeue. But because of the formail -D at the top of
my procmailrc, the mail is then rejected on the second delivery
attempt, because its message-id was cached before the failed
delivery. The only solution I came up with was to have this at
the bottom of procmailrc:
:0 W
|false >$IDCACHE
Has anyone tackled this before and solved it more elegantly?