linux-kernel - Re: [TOOL] matchreply: make procmail aware of threads and dups

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Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:58:10 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [TOOL] matchreply: make procmail aware of threads and dups

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 The attached tarball contains README but it's outdated and doesn't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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