Erik Cederstrand wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
I have my mail system running on my FreeBSD server. It uses postfix
outgoing, and dovecot to manage the Imap server, and finally Seamonkey
either locally or from one of my other machines, to read/write my
mail, it makes for a very portable mail system, but I am now convinced
I have one major bug. It's that I'm getting too darn many duplicate
mails.
I didn't complain when that happened on all the FreeBSD posts, because
we have so daarn many people crossposting, it'd be foolish to try to
fix that. BUT I just got dupes on some mail from Usenix, and I know
Usenix isn't double posting me.
Any idea of any common sort of mail mistake I might have made? Mail
isn't my real forte, so I might well have bungled something. Any
sort of hint, right or wrong, would help, and especially the wrong
ones: I'll run them down anyhow, and during that running down, I often
find the real error, so don't think I'll jump upon you for stupid
suggestions.
The only sort of thing I won't try is suggestions to change the basic
method I use: I know Imap *can* be made to work, so I won't switch to
using something like popmail, I don't want to pop my mail. Other than
that, any suggestion will be checked, believe me.
Just to narrow down the problem, take a look at the full headers of the
duplicate mails and see if the mails are exact copies (i.e. the
duplication occurs internally) or are in fact recieved py Postfix twice.
Check the mail logs to see what Postfix, Dovecot and whatever else you
have in the mix (SpamAssassin? Procmail? Postgrey?) are doing. Also make
sure you're not just recieving the extra emails from some address you've
set to forward to your normal address.
Yup, that got it. Your own message was dup'd to me, and I found out
what was wrong. When I got back to my apartment finally, from the
extended hospital stay, all of my mail subs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] had
lapsed from non-receipt. I'd lost my old FreeBSD machine, and while I
was still pretty disabled, it took me a long while to get the machine
and all the smoking hardware back in service, and when I did, I
restarted all my old subs, but because I'd lost the machine, all my old
ssh keys went up in smoke, and I now couldn't get back into my
freebsd.org login (remember I was a committer) so I was forced to
restart my mail fromm my own hosts at chuckr.org. Well, somehow, all
the old FreeBSD.org subs kicked back in finally (they must occaisonally
test forever, because I was laid up about 6 months). So, all I need to
do is to single up my subs. Too bad I couldn't get the new mail
application to do what the old majordomo would do (give me the list of
all lists a particular login name is subscribed to).
So.thanks for kicking me into doing that testing.
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