From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 00:40:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07340 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.wulaw.wustl.edu (server.wulaw.wustl.edu [128.252.251.249]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA07309 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matt ([128.252.112.218]) by server.wulaw.wustl.edu (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA17445 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 02:40:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <324249E3.4818@www.wulaw.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 02:38:11 -0500 From: Matt Rosenberg Organization: Washington University School of Law X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: runaway e-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just had the strangest thing happen on my FreeBSD 2.1.5 system. Everything had been running great in the mail subsytem ever since it was installed more than a year ago as 2.0.5. All of the sudden, tonight one of the e-mail messages with what looks like a proper header was replicated more than a dozen times. I checked the mail logs of both the sending (a Novell GroupWise) and receiving systems and confirmed that the message only came over in one connection. It was properly distributed to two lists on the system, but for some reason, stayed in the mailq and with the same message ID was redistributed every half-hour exactly (the time I have sendmail set to reprocess the queue). Eventually after about 7 hours of this named crashed and dumped for the first time in the history of the system. This then of course stacked up the rest of the system until I was woken up from a peaceful sleep and found 517 messages sitting in the queue -- almost all for nslookup failures (due to the named crash). What I'm dying to know is what caused the same message to stay in the queue and replicate so many times? Here is the header from the message: >From MCCARTNEY@wulaw.wustl.edu Thu Sep 19 20:09:59 1996 Received: from wulaw.wustl.edu ([128.252.251.28]) by server.wulaw.wustl.edu (8.7 .5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA11717; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:54:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from WULAW-Message_Server by wulaw.wustl.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:52:30 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:42:54 -0600 From: Peggy McCartney To: 1997@server.wulaw.wustl.edu, 1998@server.wulaw.wustl.edu, brogan@wulaw.wustl.edu, williamsl@wulaw.wustl.edu Subject: D.C. Job Fair Status: O X-Status: The server.wulaw.wustl.edu is our system and users 1997 and 1998 are class lists. Here are the appropriate /etc/aliases lines: 1997: :include:/var/mail/lists/1997 1998: :include:/var/mail/lists/1998 Anyone have any ideas?? -- ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA matt@www.wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/~matt/ =============================================