[Esd-l] VOTE: adding duplicate notification suppression

[Daniel Marois]

Great!, you got my vote!

Daniel Marois
Zoom Media inc.

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> From: esd-l-admin at spconnect.com [mailto:esd-l-admin at spconnect.com]On
> Behalf Of John D. Hardin
> Sent: June 14, 2002 10:11
> To: Daniel Marois
> Cc: Esd-l at spconnect.com
> Subject: RE: [Esd-l] VOTE: adding duplicate notification suppression
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Daniel Marois wrote:
> 
> > I would personally like to have a choice.
> 
> Well, yes, of course you'd either be able to turn it on or turn it
> off.
> 
> > I did have a case last year where a corrupt procmail.log in a user
> > directory prevented infected messages to be quarantined. As it is
> > working now, if I see 20 emails in quarantine and I receive 20
> > warnings, I know that I got them all. This is how usually do a
> > quick check, just make sure that the number of quarantine match
> > the warnings.
> 
> The way I'm thinking is it would also suppress duplicate quarantines.
> 
> > Another idea would be to put the number of suppressed warning in
> > the "master" warning message, that way we would be able to make a
> > match with the number of quarantined messages.
> 
> The only warning delivered would be the first. The subsequent messages
> would log something like "Message-ID already processed, suppressing
> duplicate." - you could count those in the log file.
> 
> Perhaps *that* would be the notification.
> 
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