Hi there,
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.
thanks,
Greg
Greg Trounson wrote:> Hi there, > > 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.Your wording here is a little confusing. Are you saying that several people are not only on the mailing list, but also in the 'staff' alias, which is also on the mailing list?> 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.Sounds to me like your MTA is doing what you've told it: when mail comes in for X, send a copy to [A,B,C,D....]. One option you might consider (and one I'll be investigating once we migrate to 1.0) is to have the list mails delivered to shared folders. Then your only issues are new/read flags (which can be great for sales inquiry lists, btw) and who gets to delete messages. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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
Greg Trounson <gregt@maths.otago.ac.nz> wrote Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:26:46 +1300: | Does the Dovecot project have plans to implement duplicate suppression | at some stage? I'm pretty sure that dovecot-lda suppresses duplicate messages, at least as long as CMU's sieve implementation is used. -- Linus
Greg Trounson wrote:> 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. >I would say this feature would be better suited to your Mailing List software Michael