Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/10/24/04:31:37
Hi overseers,
we have a strange mail duplication here on the cygwin ML. The
mail with Message ID <0ML4cO-1Kt7yy1h2s-000U3k AT mx DOT kundenserver DOT de>
is duplicated over and over again. Could something on sourceware
be the culprit?
Thanks for looking,
Corinna
----- Forwarded message from Herb Maeder -----
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:49:09 -0700
> From: Herb Maeder
> Subject: Apologies for multiple messages (Please Help!)
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
> Apologies to the list for getting the same message sent over and over to
> the list from my account. I can't yet explain what is happening, but I can
> assure you that I only sent the message once (and in no way differently
> than my other posts to the list).
>
> I've been on the phone with my ISP for the better part of the last 4 hours
> trying to figure out what is going on, to no avail. Messages keep getting
> sent to the list, even though my account was deactivated and every process
> connected with it killed. Unsubscribing from the list didn't help either,
> messages still got through. Bottom line, I really don't know how I can
> stop the madness, so I need some help.
>
> >From the headers it seems to show my domain keeps sending the message to
> sourceware.org, my ISP assures me that their maillog only shows the
> message being sent once.
>
> I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out what is going on. Is there
> any chance that the problem could be on the sourceware.org side of things?
> I'm beginning to suspect that, but I cannot confirm.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but this type of thing has happened to
> the list before, right? I seem to remember it happening to someone else
> a while back, but I cannot find it in the archives at the moment.
>
> Can someone please tell me how best to get in touch with the list
> administrator to try and figure out what is going on? They contact me
> directly at maeder-cygml AT maeder DOT org.
>
> Or at the bare minimum disable any more mail from my account to the list.
> The list has been tortured enough....
>
> Herb.
>
>
> P.S. I'm hoping like hell that this message doesn't loop...
>
> P.P.S. Here is what I'm seeing in the headers in case anyone can enlighten
> me as what is going on.
>
>
> >From message 1:
> Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:43:33 +0000
> Received: (qmail 86029 invoked by uid 18834); 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 -0000
>
> >From message 2:
> Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:50:13 +0000
> Received: (qmail 86029 invoked by uid 18834); 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 -0000
>
> >From message 3:
> Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:10:13 +0000
> Received: (qmail 86029 invoked by uid 18834); 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 -0000
>
>
> The key thing to note is that the time stamp on the second line of each
> message is exactly the same (i.e. I sent the message only once and it
> fired off only one qmail pid). The first line is when the message
> subsequently gets received by sourceware.org, the timestamps for each new
> message are different.
>
> At first, it would appear that maeder.org is sending the message to
> sourceware.org repeatedly. But since the messsage must be coming from
> sourceware.org, there is also the possibility that sourceware.org only
> received the message once, but is passing the same message on at whacky
> 7-40 minute intervals. Having someone look at the mail logs on
> sourceware.org would certainly help.
>
>
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