Matthew Dainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have one particular niggle, that is largely unreproducible on demand
> but can occur quite frequently in that sometimes a particular user can
> get multiple copies of the same e-mail. From myself originating such an
> e-mail from a remote account, the sending mailserver thinks that the
> e-mail wasn't delivered and so retries for however long it is set to
> with it's configured frequency until it naturally gives up, reporting
> the e-mail couldn't be delivered, when in fact 30 or more copies have
> been successfully delivered.
>
> In simple terms, either qmail or Netscape isn't saying "yup, got it",
> and so the sending server keeps retrying...
>
> I'm trying to narrow down where the fault lies, and because qmail is the
> first in line, maybe the fault is there?
Unlikely. qmail will acknowledge receipt of the message properly as
soon as qmail-queue has indicated success. I would think it would be
more likely that the Netscape server is failing, and qmail is re-trying
delivery to it.
You will be able to find out exactly what happened by looking in the
qmail-send logs. The Netscape server's response to each delivery
attempt will be in there, among other things.
Charles
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