Re: [Gaim-devel] [Gaim-commits] A quick poll about Gaim mailing list

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:05 -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> 1) The sender should not receive two copies, as both copies of the
> message will have the same Message-Id.  Many systems perform this
> de-duplication automatically, but for those which do not (it sounds
> like yours may not), you may find the following procmail recipe useful:

I should also note that I've done this in a workaround sort of way with
dumb mail clients for years. It takes a little more work, but that's a
trade-off of using a bad mail client (which I use for other reasons).

Also, Mailman offers the option to not send you a message via the list
if you were also in the To: or CC: line. You should go turn this option
on if you 1) don't want duplicates and 2) can't do it locally for some
reason. This does have the disadvantage that I could list you in the To:
or CC: but NOT actually list you as a RCPT with the SMTP server, so you
wouldn't get the message at all. However, without someone being
deliberately malicious, that's not going to happen, and everyone else on
the list will see it (including the archives).

I used to think Reply-To munging and Subject tagging were good ideas.
They're not.

Richard