That sounds like an undocumented "feature" ....  Did you notify MS??

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Goodell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 11:11 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: multiple copies of a message (mailing list )


I experienced this exact issue recently. The problem was relatively specific
to our environment but there is an issue with E2K that might be affecting
you too. In our case, E2K forwards outbound mail to a smart host
(MAILsweeper for SMTP). I had the MSW servers configured to block msgs with
more than 100 recipients thinking that was working. It turns out that during
the SMTP conversation between E2K and MSW, E2K learns that the smart host
won't accept more than 100 recipients per message so it chopped up the
message into multiple msgs and sent to all of the recipients in batches of
100. This is ok but when this happens E2K gets confused about whether or not
that message was sent so it keeps sending the email over and over. 

The msg does not show up in the queue in ESM but you can find it if you look
in the file system (exchsrvr\mailroot\vsi 1\queue. If there are msgs stuck
in there you can stop SMTP and delete them and all is well. 

It is possible you have something similar going on. Or maybe not.  :)

-----Original Message-----
From: wade robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:59 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: multiple copies of a message (mailing list )


I have a few customers that send newsletters to external DL's up to 600
users per DL recently the some of their external subscribers have received
multiple copies of newsletters sent up to two weeks ago. The messages
leave our Exchange 2000 server and the queues are all clean.  I checked
the mailbox that is the source of this message and there is no indication
that it has sent the message multiple times. Only a few users on the DL
have complained about receiving multiple messages and they are spread
across several domains. Anyone seen this type of looping mail before??

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