On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Rick Green wrote:
> Vincent Poy wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am running sendmail 8.9.3 with FreeBSD -CURRENT. I'm
> > experiencing a weird problem with majordomo mailing lists or rather
> > aliases. It seems like with all the lists running at earth.gaianet.net,
> > depending on the size of the list, it will send atleast one extra copy of
> > the same message to the user. When I look at the mail queue with mailq,
> > it only shows the address for each person once but they get the mail
> > multiple times. I know this isn't a majordomo issue since sending
> > directly to hks-outgoing@mail.gaianet.net yields the same results.
> >
> > hks-outgoing::include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/hks
> >
> > The above seems to be sendmail just reading a list of users.
> > Anyone have any ideas about how to resolve this one? Thanks.
>
> It has been reported that with large lists and short sendmail queue
> cycles, messages will be duplicated to people at the tail end of the
> list. The suggestion is to configure sendmail to run the mail queue
> less often. Give it a chance to attempt everything in the queue before
> starting over again.
Interesting.... One list is only like 20 users but from different
domains and it still does the same thing. I have sendmail with -bd -q1m
now... What do you suggest?
Cheers,
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