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Re: Alleviating Duplicates

1999-05-08 08:34:55
Daniel Munden replied to my response,

| How did you get the e-mail addresses at the beginning of the address with
| parentheses around the name and appended at the end of the address?

I use Elm as my MUA, and it likes to show addresses that way.  That form is
still accepted, but   Real Name <ad(_at_)dr(_dot_)ess>  is preferred these days.

| What about processing every line in the body? To us that may seem slow, but
| CPU time is nothing, although it does require more CPU time and a data file
| to hold the information. And, high volume mail processing servers wouldn't
| use it.

You can set up a recursive INCLUDERC arrangement to process the body line
by line, but (1) it's a pain in the butt to code, (2) if the message is long
you might run out of file descriptors and make procmail abort without deli-
very, and (3) since I don't know anything about checksum programs, someone
else would have to help you write it.  If you weren't talking about check-
sums but of actually caching bodies, that's another story.

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