On Thursday, 4. October 2007, Josh Sled wrote: > Wolfram Schlich writes: > > * Donnie Berkholz [2007-10-03 19:12]: > >> On 12:43 Wed 03 Oct , Wolfram Schlich wrote: > >> > And *please*, don't send such mails to this > >> > list *and* to my address in addition. > >> > >> You can add a procmail rule to detect duplicates using a cache and > >> checking Message-Id, with formail. Examples of this are all over > >> the place. It's a useful rule to have for many reasons besides > >> this. > > > > Yeah, but it's unpredictable *which* one of the two mails makes > > it first onto my system, thus the one *not* sent to the list might > > Sigh. > > It is the same message, addressed To/Cc: you and/or the list, no > matter which one is delivered first. So just put all list(+private) > filtering before personal filtering. That doesn't work when filtering for List-Id headers which can be nicely used with regex matching like so: # Gentoo lists :0 * ^List-Id: .*[<]gentoo-\/[^.]+ .gentoo.gentoo-$MATCH/ Robert