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Re: question re filtering duplicate messages

1999-09-29 12:17:27
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:54:49PM -0500, John Badanes wrote:
Hi,

I've been using procmail and find it wonderful, but recently I've
had an odd problem. I've been trying to filter out duplicates
using the recipe in the procmailex man page:

          :0 Wh: msgid.lock
          | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache

but it seems that formail can't write the msgid.cache file. It
creates the file, but it never seems to put anything in it. It's
not a permissions problem, since I changed the mode to 0666.
Here's an excerpt from the log:

Does the msgid.cahce file have any contents?  If I recall, the program 
failure of formail here indicates that the message is not a duplicate, 
and that formail was not a final disposition for it.

Adam

   ...[deletia]...

  Folder: /usr/spool/mail/teo                    589
procmail: Notified comsat: "teo(_at_)0:/usr/spool/mail/teo"
procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/john/.procmail/rc.xxxxxx"
procmail: Locking "msgid.lock"
procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/formail,-D,8192,msgid.cache"
procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/bin/formail"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 msgid.cache"
procmail: Unlocking "msgid.lock"
procmail: No match on "^From:(_dot_)*teo(_at_)ssr(_dot_)com"

   ...[deletia]...

If anyonne can advise me, I'd appreciate it. To round out the
picture, here's my setup:

NeXT OS Version 3.3
procmail version 3.10

I'm using qmail, but have Popover running to get mail from my
ISP's pop server. I hope this is enough to diagnose my problem.

Thanks in advance,
John

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