On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:03:20PM -0500, Daniel Kelley wrote:
>
> i am having the *exact* same problem. it only happens with mails
> originating outside our domain, and tehre's no rhyme or reason to it.
> our logs do show
>
> seems to happen more often with hotmail and yahoo. it's also happend with
> this list! the only constant i can see between the three is that they all
> (i think) use qmail for outgoing mail.
>
> i can't comfirm that this has happend at all when the mail server is
> anything but qmail. how could this be the common link?
Are you seeing this as SMTP level? We get duplicated messages frequently
but it's always (as far as I can tell) a pop issue. It is always solved by
deleting an improperly formatted multipart mime message, almost always
from outlook. The logs show somthing like "unable to lock mailbox; connection
lost" or something similar. That's with cucipop.
>
> dan
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kep Brown wrote:
>
> > Ok I am still having problems with the same emails getting delivered
> > multiple times. And am baffled by what to do. The higher ups are pushing
> > REAL hard to switch to Microsoft Exchange so I need at least some ideas on
> > what to try next.
> >
> > History,
> > Certain email messages, sent from outside our local network, with the
> > Reply to header set to our home domain, ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent using local
> > ISPs email server, get delivered multiple times. It is not consistant, one
> > time a message sent to certain users will only get delivered once, the next
> > time a message sent to the same users will start looping, get delivered
> > multiple times.
> >
> > Information
> > Far servers logs show a lost connection while sending end of data.
> > local sever shows no errors in maillog or messages. With recordio turned
> > on the conversations look the same for correctly delivered messages as
> > incorrectly delivered messages.
> >
> > ANY help or suggestions or.......... would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kep
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> >
> > Kep Brown
> > Systems, Network and Database Administrator
> > phone: (805) 560-3781
> > fax: (805) 560-3991
> > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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