Hi overseers, we have a strange mail duplication here on the cygwin ML. The mail with Message ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is duplicated over and over again. Could something on sourceware be the culprit?
Thanks for looking, Corinna ----- Forwarded message from Herb Maeder ----- > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:49:09 -0700 > From: Herb Maeder > Subject: Apologies for multiple messages (Please Help!) > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Apologies to the list for getting the same message sent over and over to > the list from my account. I can't yet explain what is happening, but I can > assure you that I only sent the message once (and in no way differently > than my other posts to the list). > > I've been on the phone with my ISP for the better part of the last 4 hours > trying to figure out what is going on, to no avail. Messages keep getting > sent to the list, even though my account was deactivated and every process > connected with it killed. Unsubscribing from the list didn't help either, > messages still got through. Bottom line, I really don't know how I can > stop the madness, so I need some help. > > >From the headers it seems to show my domain keeps sending the message to > sourceware.org, my ISP assures me that their maillog only shows the > message being sent once. > > I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out what is going on. Is there > any chance that the problem could be on the sourceware.org side of things? > I'm beginning to suspect that, but I cannot confirm. > > Please correct me if I am wrong, but this type of thing has happened to > the list before, right? I seem to remember it happening to someone else > a while back, but I cannot find it in the archives at the moment. > > Can someone please tell me how best to get in touch with the list > administrator to try and figure out what is going on? They contact me > directly at maeder-cygml AT maeder DOT org. > > Or at the bare minimum disable any more mail from my account to the list. > The list has been tortured enough.... > > Herb. > > > P.S. I'm hoping like hell that this message doesn't loop... > > P.P.S. Here is what I'm seeing in the headers in case anyone can enlighten > me as what is going on. > > > >From message 1: > Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by > sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:43:33 +0000 > Received: (qmail 86029 invoked by uid 18834); 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 -0000 > > >From message 2: > Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by > sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:50:13 +0000 > Received: (qmail 86029 invoked by uid 18834); 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 -0000 > > >From message 3: > Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by > sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:10:13 +0000 > Received: (qmail 86029 invoked by uid 18834); 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 -0000 > > > The key thing to note is that the time stamp on the second line of each > message is exactly the same (i.e. I sent the message only once and it > fired off only one qmail pid). The first line is when the message > subsequently gets received by sourceware.org, the timestamps for each new > message are different. > > At first, it would appear that maeder.org is sending the message to > sourceware.org repeatedly. But since the messsage must be coming from > sourceware.org, there is also the possibility that sourceware.org only > received the message once, but is passing the same message on at whacky > 7-40 minute intervals. Having someone look at the mail logs on > sourceware.org would certainly help. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
