"Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com> writes: >> I assure you that I've spent a really quite remarkable >> percentage of my life recently examining the qmail logs, and >> then the things that write them. > > I'm a sendmail guy myself, so I can't offer any insight. However, the thing > I always tell my kids when they've lost something is "If you can't find it > in the places where it's supposed to be, look in the places where it's NOT > supposed to be." > > In this case, if we accept the proposition that nothing has changed in qmail > then we have to look for changes outside of qmail. > > Does qmail feed into procmail the way sendmail does or is it a delivery > agent like procmail? Is there any chance that something is feeding into one > or more accounts that are, in turn, feeding into procmail (say, to read > some anti-spam rules) which is then feeding back into qmail for the final > delivery and causing a loop? Maybe some changes to the global procmailrc > file? > > I don't know if this helps things or obfuscates them further, but I've > noticed that I periodically seem to be missing posts as well as getting > duplicates. It's one of the things that makes me wonder about a spam filter > gone amuck. (I'd also suspect a problem with someone's .forward file.) No procmail, no spam filter on the path to list distribution. (I think spam filtering belongs at the end of the chain primarily; the subscriber-only posting rule, enforced by ezmlm itself, keeps most spam out of the list anyway.) > Anyway, best of luck with the investigation. It sucks having to debug a > system with almost no solid clues about where the problem lies. Thanks. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>