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Subject: Re: Double posts
From: James Fidell <james @ corp . netcom . net . uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:05:28 +0000 (GMT)
To: mbuening @ argon . helios . nd . edu (Mike Buening)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960321143153.3279A-100000@argon.helios.nd.edu> from "Mike Buening" at Mar 21, 96 02:33:03 pm

> I've seen this too.  It seems it comes from some mailers that put the
> list name in the To line and the Cc line and thus sends two copies to
> the list.  I don't know of a good strategy to solve this problem though.
> I'd like to hear from anyone else who's fixed this.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> 
> > I'm maintaining a fairly active mailing list, using majordomo-1.93
> > on Linux 1.2.13
> >
> > Once in a while a message sent to the list gets posted twice to all
> > subscribers.
> >
> > How can I try to debug this problem? Anyone experiencing a similar
> > problem?

I believe this to be a problem with flock under Linux.  Later
versions of sendmail have a workaround for this problem.  It's not
specifically a majordomo problem because I've seen exactly the same
issue with SmartList.

Try upgrading to sendmail 8.7.x

James.
-- 
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