i take your point on packetloss / truncated SMTP conversations. however,
i'm seeing this from many different domains, including hotmail and yahoo.
one oddity: so far, the dups all seems to come from domains that are using
qmail for outgoing mail.
At 09:39 AM 3/15/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Steve Crowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> [...] I have now received as fourteen separate instances at these times:
>[...]
>> All mails are identical and I'm sure Charles is not resending the same
mail.
>
>Nope, just the once.
>
>> Does anyone know why this should be happening or better still how to fix
it ?
>
>I see this too sometimes; it seems to be bursty. I'll get lots of duplicates
>for a day or two, then none for a week or three. Dan has mentioned in the
>past that packet loss on the UIC link during the day regularly hits 25% --
>since list.cr.yp.to sits on that network, it might be not seeing the
>successful response to the DATA command if the connection gets broken before
>then, and therefore has to re-send the mail (and logging "possible dupe"
>messages in Dan's logs).
>
>I do note that the duplicates are generally received on weekdays during
>North American office hours, and I only notice them on mail coming from
>list.cr.yp.to -- not from other ezmlm-managed lists.
>
>Perhaps djb himself could comment on whether the network saturation at
>UIC is causing duplicates?
>
>Charles
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