[Dovecot] Duplicate suppression

Peter Svensson psvdovecot at psv.nu
Tue Jan 17 09:57:57 EET 2006


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Greg Trounson wrote:

> Does the Dovecot project have plans to implement duplicate suppression at 
> some stage?
>
> I have a situation where several people belong to more than one mailing list. 
> One alias ('staff') incorporates several lists.  These staff are receiving 
> duplicate messages (one copy for every list they're on) when a message is 
> sent to this staff alias. There is no reason they need to receive more than 
> one copy.
>
> There seems to be no way I can turn that feature off in my MTA so I thought 
> I'd try a bit further down the chain.

We use the program "formail" from our MDA to remove duplicate messages 
with the same message id.

Peter



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