Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:19:56 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mail problem, using postfix & dovecot Message-ID: <4754B94C.8040504@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <47547DF5.9090105@cederstrand.dk> References: <47546CD9.904@chuckr.org> <47547DF5.9090105@cederstrand.dk>
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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 chuckr@freebsd.org 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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