On Wed, 16 Nov 1994, Michael_Nelson wrote:
> My majordomo 1.92 system is really beginning to frustrate me and the users
> of the lists that I maintain. It is sending out two or three copies of
> every message posted, and I have not been able to figure out what to change
Could it be that your Sendmail is re-processing the queue before the first
queue run is done? I had a similar problem with a list of 200 people
(which takes about an hour to do the initial delivery run on). My
Sendmail setup was to process the queue every *fifteen minutes* (yes, a
little excessive), so that before the initial delivery run was done, three
or four other Sendmail processes might be processing the same job that was
still running -- and people got the same message several times.
Two ways to fix this problem -- I would do both. 1) have Sendmail
checkpoint its delivery successes more often, so that even if two
processes *are* doing simultaneous delivery on a list, they are less
likely to step on each other's toes. In Sendmail V8 it's config file OCn,
where n is the number of successes to checkpoint after. 2) Have Sendmail
process the queue less often -- say, every couple of hours.
If you're not using Sendmail, never mind :-)
Norm
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