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["Widerski, Betty" <address@concealed>]

Not an implementable solution, but if your subscribers are using M365/Exchange for email we find that Microsoft “sees” the duplicate messages and only delivers one of them. Which is confusing to list owners who subscribe themselves to the multiple lists and then think the post didn’t go to all of them because they themselves didn’t receive a copy from each list.

 

I don’t know if enterprise Gmail does this.

 

Betty

 

Betty Widerski

Cloud & Server Engineering – HBS Information Technology

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From: address@concealed <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Matthew Goebel
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2024 12:55 PM
To: Josh <address@concealed>
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [en@sympa] Preventing Duplicate Messages?

 

Hey Josh,

 

  I don't know of a better solution, maybe someone else will post one.

 

Thanks,
Matt

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 12:22 PM Josh <address@concealed> wrote:

Hi Matt -

 

I appreciate the quick reply.  We're looking to migrate from our home-grown system to Sympa, but we have something like 25,000 programmatically generated lists (Higher Education -- Majors, Minors, Concentrations, Course Sections, etc) over. I was hoping we missed something in the documentation. If not, we may have to stay with home-grown system.

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 12:01 PM Matthew Goebel <address@concealed> wrote:

You could make lists which include membership of the other lists

 

ie...

address@concealed : includes the membership of lists x and y

address@concealed : includes the membership of lists x and y and z

 

not going to scale very well with more than three lists, and you have to remember to send to the aggregate lists 

 

Thanks,
Matt

 

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM Josh <address@concealed> wrote:

Take the following scenario:

 

User A is a member of the following Sympa Mailing Lists:

address@concealed

address@concealed

address@concealed

 

If an email is sent (To: or Cc: field) to address@concealed,

address@concealed, and

address@concealed, how can User A only receive one single message instead of three?

 

I found a very old posting here (https://listes.renater.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-users/2007-04/msg00039.html) with a similar scenario but no resolution and I am unable to find anything in the documentation for how to implement this.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

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Matthew Goebel : maddress@concealed : Unix Jockey @ EMU : Hail Eris
Neo-Student, Net Lurker, Donut consumer, and procrastinating medher...
 "Always with the negative waves, Moriarty" - Oddball
 "Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer