Injection duplicate removal
Occasionally a subscriber on a list has some mail problem which results in multiple copies being sent out to the list. Now this is annoying when it happens to a personal address, when a list address gets bombed in this way its seriously annoying - and in some cases has been a real problem for the originator who gets 1000's of messages complaining about the multiple sendings :-)
Would it be advantageous to have a duplicate filter within Mailman which maintains a database of the last n messages sent, holding the sender, subject and a body hash. Duplicates could then be bounced before list injection.
This is working round someone elses set of bugs, but could be a useful list defence mechanism. However it will not solve the looping mail problem where a mail gets bigger each time round as something is prepended/appended to it.
Nigel.
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