Re: [Caml-list] can anybody fix message tripling

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:46:34PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > 	Messages from the list triples. Can Inria fix this?
> 
> Sort of.  It's the usual problem: a subscriber to the list bounces
> messages back to the list itself.  The usual solution is to
> unsubscribe and notify this user, which I just did.  I can't swear
> this won't happen again, though.

Could not the same procmail rule used for detecting mail duplicates be
using at the mail entry ? Something like :

:0 ic
| cd procmail/mail.backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,1024d`

# don't guard duplicated mails.
:0 Whc: procmail/msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 procmail/msgid.cache
# let's save them to procmail/duplicates for now.
:0 a:
procmail/duplicates

Maybe a bit adapted for the particular kind of bounces ?

Or you could add a special tag to the headers, and reject bounced mails
which present this header or something ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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