Hey there. I'm new to Majordomo and to Linux, (I'm running RH6) and I
have a question about one of the FAQ answers (I think).
Sometimes when someone sends an e-mail to the list, Majordomo decides that
it would be a good idea to send out many, many copies of that e-mail to
everyone on the list (on the order of DOZENS). It sends them out hourly.
This is very annoying, and it is sporadic.
The FAQ SEEMS to have something to do with this, but I can't make heads
or tails of the response:
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4.3 - Why do I get duplicate mail sent to the list?
If you're running MMDF, read on: [From Gunther Anderson]
{snip -- I'm running sendmail}
If you're running Sendmail, this is more rare. There have been unconfirmed
reports that on some systems having the queue process interval set too
short can cause problems, even though sendmail is supposed to handle this.
Workarounds are to increase your queue process interval (-q flag), or
decrease the interval between queue checkpoints (OC flag in sendmail.cf).
There have been many reports from Linux users complaining about duplicate
mail. The problem seems to be that flock() under Linux is broken. This may
be fixed in a future release, but for now in sendmail's conf.h in the
#ifdef __linux__ section add a line #define HASFLOCK 0. There are also
reports that some versions of the libc have problems, and that linking
with the libresolv.a from a recent BIND version will work around the
problem.
[ Please let me know if you have any more information --ed ]
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Call me an idiot, but I have no IDEA wtf this means. Do I have to
recompile sendmail? I'm running v8.9, and this response looks Very old.
What's going on here?
-Dan
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