Feature request to make the 'archive mail' fuction smarter. :-)

[Glenn Steen]

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On 18/10/05, Leif Neland <mailscanner-user at neland.dk> wrote:
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "TAC Forums" <tac.forums at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:23 PM
> Subject: Feature request to make the 'archive mail' fuction smarter. :-)
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Not sure if there is a way to solve this problem, but any ideas would
> > be welcome. :-)
> >
> > We've enabled a feature in MailScanner called 'Archive Mail' which is
> > forwarded to an e-mail ID.... say ABC at domain.com
> >
> > However, if someone send an email TO a person, say X and a copy CC to
> > Y, then the ID ABC at domain.com receives two copies.
>
> Serves him right for snooping in other peoples mail :-)
>
> Anyway, perhaps the Archive Mail line in MailScanner.cfg could be made a
> custom function, which looked up the message-id in the MailWatch database
> (or its own database) and returned "none" if the message-id had been seen
> before.
>
> (Not sure if the mail is logged to the MailWatch database at once, or at the
> end of the batch. If the latter is the case, it wouldn't work, as the
> duplicate messages are most probably in the same batch)
>
> Leif
>
End of the batch I'd imagine, from the "looked up last" thing:-).

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-- Glenn
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