At 4:48 PM -0500 10/30/01, Doug Mansfield is rumored to have typed:
Just to confirm it, I subed a free yahoo account and it received the duplicates. My sendmail logs show both messages being delivered.
Any idea?
Have you set up a test list to see if you could duplicate the problem without driving the subscribers out of their minds? I don't know of _anything_ in SmartList that would differenciate based on the size of a message (other than the size limit setting), and would _really_ be interested to know if there's anything within SmartList that would cause a message to be resent twice.
Are you _certain_ this isn't simply an issue of getting two copies _inbound?_ Especially since you noted it didn't happen to all messages over 4.5k, it might be a couple of...er...users who are a little confused and sending the same message out twice (you said the header fields were
but I'm betting the Message-ID: header field is different, which would indicate the user sent two copies). Your logs should show it, but you could try adding this simple recipe to the top of rc.local.s00:
:0 c /path/to/list/dir/tempfile
...which will keep a copy of anything inbound in the tempfile file. (I have a couple of users who _routinely_ send multiple copies of each
Doug, Do both messages have the same header info? I sometimes get two copies of the same message, one the sender is set to [listname], the other the senders name, with reply-to as [listname].... I don't know why it does that, but it is annoying. I know it's not a multiple posting as it's happened when I was the sender. ATB, Les Charlie Summers wrote: the same, posting a
few seconds apart.)
Charlie