Dragaera

About this multiple mail thing...

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Tue Jul 13 13:24:31 PDT 2004

Alexandros Diamantidis writes:
>I've been subscribed to the dragaera mailing list for a long time now,
>as adia at noc.uoa.gr. When multiple copies of postings to the list started
>arriving to others, I wasn't affected - I continued receiving just one
>copy of everything. Tomorrow, I unsubscribed that address and subscribed
>this one (adia at hellug.gr), and (surprise!) I started getting multiple
>copies.

>Just a data point, which may help you track down the problem.

As mentioned, it's possible that this is because your server trashes
dupes.

It's also possible (given that we've established a limit to how
-early- the dupes could have been generated in the process [not very],
but haven't established a limit to how late they are being generated)
that the issue is actually a very low time limit for acknowledgement
>from the recieving smtp server.

My guess is that it isn't -- that it's a low limit (or other false
negative) in the qmail->qmail transfer -- note that for most of us,
the dupes appear to be across the board (most people get the same
number of dupes) and time related (ie, either the server is duping
every message, or it's not doing dupes at all, like now).


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