From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 17:03:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7227C16A41C for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:03:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430E443D45 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:03:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8085D62 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:03:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77674-05 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:03:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3685C3A for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42C81A5E.4030604@mac.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:03:26 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20050703154323.H24613@maren.thelosingend.net> <20050703163226.GA97415@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050703163226.GA97415@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: Subject: Re: Year-old messages 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: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:03:31 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:46:46PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >> How come I get all these year-old messages coming in today? >> I got a couple of dozen of these in both questions@, current@ and stable@. >> >> Here's an exerpt from the headers of one such message >> What's mu.org got to do with this? > > A bad script from someone at mu.org. Yes, this smells like procmail. Procmail includes a utility called formail which will take an mbox full of messages and do something to them. Used incorrectly, this utility will redeliver (!) all of the messages in the mbox, resulting in a flood of old mail.... -- -Chuck