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[Larry McVoy]

Never mind, I didn't read far enough into your email, my bad.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 04:36:06PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 05:31:06PM -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> > On 06/23/2018 03:21 PM, Michael Parson wrote:
> > >The first rule in my .procmailrc does this with formail:
> > 
> > That works well for many.  But it does not work at all for me.
> > 
> > There are many additional factors that I have to consider:
> > 
> >  - I use different email addresses for different things.
> 
> I think you misunderstood what formail is doing.  It's looking
> at the Message-ID header.  The one for the email you sent
> looks like:
> 
> Message-ID: <ea179b08-d58c-e116-ae07-cee882f306f8 at spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
> 
> All formail is doing is keeping a recent cache of those ids and only letting
> one get through.
> 
> So suppose someone reply-alls to you and the list (very common).  Without
> the formail trick you'll see that message twice.

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