From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 22:06:54 2007 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 29DBF16A417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cederstrand.dk) Received: from mail.itu.dk (pluto.itu.dk [130.226.142.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04EC213C442 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:06:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cederstrand.dk) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by mail.itu.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BB232CD36; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:06:51 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at itu.dk Received: from superman.itu.dk ([130.226.142.5]) by localhost (daredevil.itu.dk [130.226.142.26]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id q95JC3HicgBP; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:06:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from wimac.littlebit.dk (unknown [85.233.238.191]) by superman.itu.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C55CD9E720; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:06:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47547DF5.9090105@cederstrand.dk> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:06:45 +0100 From: Erik Cederstrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey References: <47546CD9.904@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <47546CD9.904@chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: mail problem, using postfix & dovecot 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: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:06:54 -0000 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. Erik