Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:58:10 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [TOOL] matchreply: make procmail aware of threads and dups |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > I've been reading the rather unfortunate LAK stuff on this week's LWN > and it seems like other people are having similar problems with > duplicated messages from different mailing lists. Here's a program > I've been using for a couple of years now to solve the issue. It > builds index of Maildir folders and can match for duplicates or a > thread a message belongs to and very easy to use with procmail. > > With proper procmailrc rules, this allows me not to worry about dups > (there's race window and some might escape from time to time but no > biggie) and easily follow the threads I'm interested in by simply > moving the thread to one of the folders I keep closer eye on > regardless of the actual target delivery addresses. > > The attached tarball contains README but it's outdated and doesn't > explain the -d option which matches for duplicates. > > Here's my .procmailrc with some explanations which I grew over the > years and am sure can be made much prettier somehow but it should show > how it can be used.
Ooh.. right, one more thing. To make the messages I wrote to be filtered the same way, I disable the MUA from storing sent messages directly and instead make it bcc myself, so that those end up in the same folders as the threads they belong to.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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