Dragaera

Duplicates

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Wed Jul 21 09:28:07 PDT 2004

David Dyer-Bennet writes:
>Sorry it's taking so long to resolve this.  It didn't start at a
>well-defined time, but "nothing had changed" (really, so far as I can
>tell) when it became serious, and nothing I can track down yet seems
>to show any clue to what's happening.  It still happens on some other
>mail arriving here as well.  I've by now made dozens of changes,
>without learning anything about the underlying cause. 

FWIW, if you want to just move the list for a while, I can host it on
labcats.org (as a mailman list).

>The examples I've examined appear to be duplicated in the process of
>transit from ns2 (also primary MX) and gw.  One thing I'm trying is
>dropping ns2 as the primary MX for dragaera.info, so all the mail
>comes in direct.  Perhaps that will at least reduce the incidence.
>I've completely changed the protocol used to refer mail from ns2 to
>gw, with no change I can find in duplicates. 

*sigh*

I think you need to examine the qmail logs, though I'm not sure
exactly what to look for -- retry loops, presumably, but I'm far from
a qmail expert.



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