Dragaera

OT: dups

David Silberstein davids at Kithrup.COM
Fri Jul 9 11:12:12 PDT 2004

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Joshua Kronengold wrote:

>Note a couple of different things:
>
>	1. The qmail message ID (in this case, 14277-mneme=io.com) is
>	   identical. 

The number in there (14277) is also in the "X-Archive-Number:" 
header.  Isn't that added by ezmlm?  I note that at least in some
cases, this number, which should be unique per message, was/is 
being used for multiple different messages.

I also note the following:

The dups seem to have the following header:

  Received: from unknown (@10.0.0.205)

(or in one case, "Received: from unknown (root at 10.0.0.205)"),
while the non-dup messages (or the last duplicate message) says

  Received: from unknown (dgf at 10.0.0.205)

I am not sure why this might be the case, but I find myself
wondering if there are more processes running and trying to handle
things than there should be, and there is not proper process 
locking to keep a rogue from stepping on the toes of the "sane"
process.

Or perhaps it's a permissions issue - the rogue process sends out
an e-mail, but can't write to a log saying that it has done so, and
therefore thinks it hasn't and tries again?  Then the "sane" 
process (dgf) sends out its e-mail, and properly writes to the log,
so both sane and rogue are satisfied that the e-mail has been sent?

I don't know enough about qmail/ezmlm to offer an informed opinion,
but I've been dealing with weird Unix crap (and weird computer crap
in general) for far too long.