So being on vacation for a few days and checking my mail and have found an explosion of emails. Unfortunately most of them are duplicates.
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email. So if you're on linaro-dev and you're also To/CC'ed in the email, you get it twice (three times if your other work email was CC'ed as well, but that cannot be helped).
Is this something that can be easily resolved? I really don't know much about maillist servers, but I do know I've not had this issue on other mailing lists. So it should be possible.
Thoughts? (but don't CC me! :) -john
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, John Stultz wrote:
So being on vacation for a few days and checking my mail and have found an explosion of emails. Unfortunately most of them are duplicates.
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email. So if you're on linaro-dev and you're also To/CC'ed in the email, you get it twice (three times if your other work email was CC'ed as well, but that cannot be helped).
Sure it can. Just use formail with -D. It will discard duplicates based on a cache of message-id's. For example, I'm using the following procmail script:
# remove duplicates :0 Wh: .msgid.lock | formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache
Thoughts? (but don't CC me! :)
Nah. Removing you from CC (or the to: field) is too much hassle. Furthermore this is something I want people replying to me to *NOT* do. Emails not directly addressed to me get much lower priority in my mbox.
Nicolas
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:05 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email.
Go to http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/options/linaro-dev and select "Avoid duplicate copies of messages".
Interestingly, for me, this option was set and I had to clear it as I don't want gaps in the threads in my mailing list folders.
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:45 +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:05 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email.
Go to http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/options/linaro-dev and select "Avoid duplicate copies of messages".
Ah! Perfect! Thanks so much! -john
On Thursday 01 September 2011, John Stultz wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:45 +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:05 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email.
Go to http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/options/linaro-dev and select "Avoid duplicate copies of messages".
Ah! Perfect! Thanks so much!
FWIW, I'm annoyed every time I have to set this back to letting the copies go through. My workflow depends on having emails that have me on Cc end up in my private inbox, while I also want to have the full thread in the mailing list archive.
Worse, when someone replies to the email on the mailing list, the server will have dropped part of the Cc list and I never see the later emails or who was supposed to be in the discussion.
Arnd
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:05:55PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email. So if you're on linaro-dev and you're also To/CC'ed in the email, you get it twice (three times if your other work email was CC'ed as well, but that cannot be helped).
I know this is controversial, but I really like that pattern. It ensures that I filter messages that are directly to me specially, while the rest just goes into a lower priority archive folder.
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:05:55PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
It seems the linaro-dev list isn't configed to avoid mailing folks who are already recipients of the email. So if you're on linaro-dev and you're also To/CC'ed in the email, you get it twice (three times if your other work email was CC'ed as well, but that cannot be helped).
Someone else already told you about your personal mailing-list settings to avoid multiple copies of messages; I wanted to add that the default config on linaro-dev@ has always been for copies to be discarded by default.
You might be getting copies from other lists though (e.g. I get bug updates from launchpad and from launchpad team mailing-lists), which you can confirm by looking at the List-Id header or at the Received headers. The big hammer is filtering copies out yourself as others have suggested (procmail's formail -D is one example).
I know this is controversial, but I really like that pattern. It ensures that I filter messages that are directly to me specially, while the rest just goes into a lower priority archive folder.
(same here; mailing-list traffic is kept in folders and mail directed to me in a different one)
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