Want to keep *some* duplicates

[Adam Stephens]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> For some reason, people now commonly reply to mailing list messages by 
> directing them to the sender and Cc'ing the list.  This usually results in me 
> only having one copy of the message: the one in my inbox, and not the one 
> that's nicely threaded in the same folder as its references.  My copy of 
> imapd.conf says that I have to leave duplicatesuppression turned on if I want 
> to use Sieve - and I definitely want to keep Sieve around! - but I don't see 
> any other clear ways to handle this.
>   
We had a query last week from someone who was accidentally making two 
copies of filtered mail using Sieve and wanted us to fix it so it didn't.

They had one Sieve rule that forwarded mail off-site and kept a copy in 
the Inbox using 'keep', and they had other rules in a separate if...else 
block that filtered mail into folders. They ended up with one copy in 
the folder, one copy in their inbox, and one copy off-site.

If you had an explicit rule saying 'If To: or CC: me, keep' and another 
rule in a separate if...else block filtering the message into a folder 
you should end up with two copies as required.

regards,
Adam.

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Adam Stephens
Network Specialist - Email & DNS
adam.stephens at bristol.ac.uk