Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Bowie Bailey writes: > > > I just tracked down a really annoying problem. It seems that one > > of my users is getting multiple copies of messages in their inbox. > > I examined the messages and determine that they are coming from > > Courier. This is what is happening: > > > > - A message comes in for user1 > > - Maildrop attempts to deliver it > > - User1's .mailfilter CC's the message to user2 > > - Maildrop then determines that user1 is over quota and queues the > > message for redelivery > > - Rinse and repeat with a duplicate message being sent to user2 on > > every delivery attempt > > > > I never saw this issue prior to my upgrade. Is this due to the > > changed handling of over-quota conditions for the backscatter > > suppression? > > No, this has been the case from day one. > > Each mail delivery attempt is a standalone event. If a mail delivery > attempt fails with a temporary error status, the delivery attempt > will be rescheduled at a later time. At which time, everything goes > back to step one. This has always been the case. > > When writing complicated mail delivery instructions you must always > keep this detail in mind.
If this is the case, how can you ever have a CC instruction in the .mailfilter without causing this problem? Even if the user's account is only over quota for an hour or so, there will still be three or four deliveries to the CC in that time. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
