From: Anil Das <das@sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:07:55 -0800 (PST)
To: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Subject: Re: Procmail during the transition, anyone?
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Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> 
> At various stages in the transition, we will be getting multiple copies of
> the same messages as the are re- cross- whatever-posted to lists,
> newsgroups and anything else handy.
> 
> Anyone have a procmail script that will show me just ONE copy of messages,
> even if the headers are not identical (e.g. one looped, another was
> forwarded, etc.)?
> 

# Remove duplicate messages
:0 Wh: .msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache


It detects duplicates by Message-Id.

-- 
Anil Das