From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 9 23:53:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D8C16A418 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:53:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C2D13C478 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:53:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m19NrqFX002143 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:53:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:53:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:53:52 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20080209235348.GA37810@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLACK autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Subject: hundreds of duplicate messages from mailserver... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:53:57 -0000 Hi People, I wrote to the KDE list about Kmail endlessly updating itself and adding and bunches of messages to my INBOX on my mailserver. Someone responded that it was probably not a KMail problem, but a server problem. That seems probably since evolution and mutt also have these duplications. So far, I'm seeing between 5 and 20 copies of most mails. I did not set up the imap stuff; the networking volunteer did that. I am running dovecot in my jail "aristotle.thought.org" on the host "sage.though.org". aristotle also hosts my DNS and web server. (FWIW, I'm still using my 400MHz Kayak with plenty of disk and about 0.5GB RAM for sage. I monitor the load; it's reasonable.) My questions: are there any mail-server types amongst us who have any idea where I can began tracking this problem? We're using procmail to put certain mail in various directories under kmail. I haven't used procmail since the early 90's and don't remember very much about it. ...I won't hypothesize any further and further confuse things. Just hope that somebody onlist can help me sort this out. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org