[Mailman-Users] duplicate messages

[Richard Barrett]

At 15:22 26/04/2003, Brad Barnett wrote:


>Hey all,
>
>I've had a very bizarre situation occur with Mailman just last week.
>After one post to the list, Mailman started generating duplicate after
>duplicate of this same message.  It was caught in the process of sending
>the fourth message out.
>
>The list.mbox file shows 4 identical messages, even if using diff to check
>them against each other.  They all have the same message ID, the same send
>time, etc.  Each of these messages was sent to the over 10k users on this
>list, and I still don't know why.

What version of Mailman are you using?

Are you sure Mailman did  not have four copies of this message delivered to 
it by your MTA?

Have you checked your MTA's mail log to see if any trace of these events 
are showing there?

>Mailman logging doesn't seem very helpful in determining this.  Is there
>any way I can discover just what happened, and is this a known bug in
>mailman?  I can provide any logging information needed...
>
>Thanks!