Duplicate Prevention
by Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all,
We've recently taken on mailman to handle many large, popular lists at my
day job, and one strangely-missing feature is the inability to avoid
duplicates when someone cc's a list's old alias and new alias (we also
moved the lists to a subdomain, out from under our primary).
It's suggested in the FAQs that this could be done using procmail -- but
I'd think it (could/should) be done in mailman itself.
The list-id header is ideal for this, and it SEEMS to be not more than a
dozen lines of code to do the same sort of per-list "lockfile" that the
procmail recipe does (plus add a variable to make it tunable in either the
config file, or the web-ui). Presumably lockfiles could expire after 7
days. Locks could also be an entry in a .pck database.
The question is (and the reason I ask this on a developer list rather than
-users) -- is there anyone here who could provide a patch to add this
functionality, or who is interested in taking on such a task for some sort
of compensation/donation?
Please contact me off (or on) list if anyone's available.
Another great feature would be to have mailman "strip" multiple cc
recipients. I.e. if a message is sent:
to: list
cc: list-alias(*), another-list-alias(*)
-or-
to: person
cc: list, list-alias(*)
To have these (*) stripped (and prevent the need for this). But that's
more work, and right now the duplicates are a major regression from what
we had before.
-Dan
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