Marko,
Can't help too much with the fix for the looping (I have similar poblems but
can't figure it out) but there is a way to stop it. I have used the
taboo_headers def in the list.config file to stop the loops. You need to
first define a custom message_header something like 'X-Mailing List:' then
add the appropriate regex in the taboo_headers section to catch it. Sorry I
don't have the exact var names or regex but you can find plenty of examples
in the md list archives (even if they are out of date) at
http://www.greatcircle.com/lists/majordomo-users/. You can do this globally
as well by doing the same in majordomo.cf.
Hope it helps.
Stu
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bax
To: Marko Kupiainen
Cc: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
Sent: 2/4/02 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail sending listpostings more than once
I had this problem once, and it has nothing to do with sendmail itself.
One of the list members was redirecting mail back to the mailing list
*without* any changes to content within the mail message. By doing
this,
the message appeared to be coming from an authorized user and therefore
majordomo happily sent out this duplicate message to the entire list.
The
way to spot this problem is to take a look at the received headers of
the
duplicate, you will see the are many more headers in the duplicate than
the
original.
Frank
At 04:46 PM 2/4/02 +0100, Marko Kupiainen wrote:
>Hi everyone
>This is my first posting to this list so Im excited if Im going to get
any
>answers ;)
>
>First a listing of software Im using:
>
>Running RedHat Linux 6.1 kernel 2.2.12-20 (yes its old but Im familiar
with
>it)
>Perl 5.00503-6
>Sendmail 8.9.3-15
>Majordomo 1.94.5
>
>
>The odd problem:
>
>We use Majordomo to distribute news to our customers and for that
purpose I
>have configured 2 lists, lets call them A and B.
>Both lists have worked flawless for half a year.
>List A consists of about 100 recipients and B (the problemlist) has
about
>400 recipients.
>List A never buggs me but list B has suddenly started to send mail
repeated
>times until I delete the queue and stop it.
>This hasnt always been the problem but started (I think) when the list
grew
>to 400 recipients.
>Both lists only accepts postings from 2 internal members becouse its
sole
>purpose is to distribute news from us to our customers.
>
>I have compared the maillog for list A sending and list B sending and
both
>gives same logg information but list B does it more than once which is
the
>problem. Why does Sendmail trying to distribute same mail more than
once ?
>
>Has anybody encountered this problem before ?
>I searced Internet for clews but couldnt find anything that matched.
>Found a email adress that was bouncing and deleted it but that wasnt
the
>solution ...
>
>If anybody has a clue please share it with me ...
>If you would like more specified maillogs or other info just say so and
I
>will gladly comply.
>
>
>regards
>Marko Kupiainen
>CIO Microcraft AB Sweden
>
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