On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:08:22PM -0000, Paul Gregg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to make qmail less conscientious about re-delivery?
> > That is, where qmail normally reports the ...Possible_duplicate! error,
> > I'd like it to assume that it has been delivered and cease future
> > attempts.
>
> My advice is to ignore it. Better to have qmail work reliably than not.
> It will be causing the recipient much more pain than you - so let them
> fix their end. If you really want to stop them, write a logfile processor
> looking for them (its not difficult), send em a warning email and
> unsubscribe them from the list.
Actually, I think they'll continue to receive the duplicates even though
they're unsubscribed since the message is in qmail's queue.
I'm attaching the logfile processor that I wrote in case anyone's
interested. You feed it the logfile, and it prints out a summary
of the qmail queue IDs, the email address, the IP, and the number of
Possible_duplicate delivery attempts.
I don't think it's too bad on resources since I only pick out the lines
that are necessary for the analysis, but if anyone wants to throw some
programming tips my way, I wouldn't be offended.
Omar
possible_duplicate.pl
