From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 02:21:42 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 5750616A418 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 02:21:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5DD13C461 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 02:21:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 22533 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2007 02:21:41 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Dec 2007 02:21:41 -0000 Message-ID: <4754B94C.8040504@chuckr.org> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:19:56 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Cederstrand References: <47546CD9.904@chuckr.org> <47547DF5.9090105@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <47547DF5.9090105@cederstrand.dk> 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: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:21:42 -0000 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.