for us, it was a cisco problem (smtp fixup), but i don't think that
there's been enough info given here to determine if that's the problem. if
you're seeing dups on a smtp level, the firewall may be the issue. the
same behavior can be caused by pop/mailbox problems; that's easier to
investigate.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Tim Hunter wrote:
> Actually it could be a bit more difficult than just the remote host has sent
> it twice. If I remember a thread from a few weeks back this was traced to a
> bad cisco firewall option being turned on.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "QMAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem with occational duplicate e-mails
>
>
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:36:43PM -0400, chris wrote:
> > > Lately several of the virtual domains have been getting duplicate
> e-mails.
> > > The have leave a copy of message on server but the same e-mail client on
> the
> > > same machine will download the same message twice. There does not seem
> to be
> > > any consistency to it at all. The e-mail clients that this has been
> > > experienced with are, Eudora 5 for the Mac and Outlook Express 5.5 for
> > > Windows and Outlook Express for the Mac.
> >
> > WDTLS?
> >
> > (for newbies: What do the logs say?)
> > two deliveries or one? in the latter case their pop3 is broken, in the
> > former the remote host has sent it twice.
> >
> > --
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> >
>