Re: Sendmail sending multiple copies

[Tighe <emry@accessus.net>]

Are you using majordomo for your lists?  An alias?  A looping script?  Or
a very large command line to run this.  Our local sendmail whipping boy
noted that if you are using a grouping alias that this kind of a problem
can occur.  If one errors out then the whole alias will error out which
causes sendmail to requeue and attempt again.  This is what I have been
told, of course this is the same guy who is friends with the troglodytes
that live in our subfloor . . .

TIghe

>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>Subject: Re: Sendmail sending multiple copies
>
>That's what I thought at first.  It seems if one of
>the recipients is refusing mail (over quotas) Sendmail
>trys to resend to the whole list again.  It happened
>with a large local distribution list as well.
>
>--- Mark <mark@bish.net> wrote:
>> 
>> It could be the software managing the lists.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Robert Threet wrote:
>> 
>> > Anytime mass mailings go out, whether from mailing
>> > lists or just large distributions, people recieve
>> > multiple copies of the e-mail - sometimes in
>> excess of
>> > 100 copies!  I thought it was bad mailing lists at
>> > first but now I'm not so sure.  
>> > 
>> > I had heard some of the old copies of sendmail
>> would
>> > sometimes do this if there was an error on the
>> list. 
>> > This is an AIX install from January of this year -
>> > brand new.  A new sendmail came out for it in
>> March. 
>> > I'll try that.  Is it a config problem?
>> > 
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