On Fri, 24 May 2002, Steve Jacobs wrote:
> > I've seen this same behavior three times during the last month or so, with the >number of dup messages varying from 26 to 84. However, this can't be a bug in XMail >1.8, as I'm still running 1.2 on this machine (RH Linux). Xmail ran for months (since >whenever 1.2 was the current version) without spewing duplicates. > > Here's what little I know about this: > > 1. We're a tiny country ISP with about a hundred users. No reports of duplicate >messages from any of them. Some of them are the kind who gleefully report _every_ >anomaly, so if this was happening very much I'd hear about it. > > 2. There is no record in any Xmail log of these messages being processed more than >once, either arriving or departing. Maybe it's my mail client (Sylpheed on RH 7.2 >Linux) choking on something? When Sylpheed displays the dups, they are always >preceeded by a an empty (completely empty, 0 length, no headers, no nothing) message. > > 3. There is an NT mail server (I have no details, its not mine) within this same >network that started mysteriously crashing the same day as my first bunch of >dupluicates. Got me speculating that this might be somebody's crudely engineered >mischief. > > Whatever, it's not a big problem here and seems to have gone away. In fact I'd >pretty much forgotten about it until Gerrit's message jogged my memory. > i'd say that duplicate messages are 99% a network problem ( or a crashing problem ). basically the client fetches the message and before it'll be able to do a delete a network interruption or a crash happens. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
