I tried to CC: this from comp.mail.sendmail, but it didn't appear to
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Last week I posted describing a problem I was having with some messages
mailed to my majordomo lists being suddenly duplicated and send out twice
with identical headers and only one entry in the sendmail log.
This is a quick update.
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I got to wondering if the queueing mechanism might be causing the problem
(I was running sendmail as "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m"). I thought
perhaps that when the queue clearning invoked, the 10-minutes-previous
incarnation was still running, screwing up locks or somethng and
duplicating any mail that poured in (ie, sending it to both processes).
Or perhaps somethign else in there.
So I reset sendmail to run as "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q45m".
Now, I am still getting duplicates, but importantly, I am getting fewer
of them and they are spaced farther apart.
This leads me to believe that something might be incorrect with regards
to the mechanisms that exist to clear out the queue that causes any mail
passing through to be duplicated.
-> UPDATE SINCE ORIGNAL POSTING
-> I tested by sending a message to a mailing list, and then
-> invoking "/usr/lib/sendmail -q", this immediately caused a
-> second message to get delivered.
I am definately having this problem with majordomo. I am having
inconsistent problems with other mail, and I cannot be sure if the
problem is this bug or simply improper addressing on the part of the
sender.
Can anyone thing of what might be causing this problem?
The system, once again, is Linux 1.1.13 using sendmail 8.6.9
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