[Dovecot] multiple emails

dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us
Mon Sep 10 20:06:26 EEST 2007


Im running clamd with clamassassin through procmail.  Maybe that is it.

ddh


Quoting Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com>:

>
> I've seen this when antivirus/spamassassin is run during the SMTP
> Session.  What happens is that av/sa scan takes too long for the client,
> the client times out, and resends the email later.  Meanwhile, the
> server completes it's part, and delivers the message.  Then it happens
> again when the client retries.
>
> Telnet in and send an email manually, see how long it takes.   Obviously
> larger email would take even longer.
>
> Rick
>
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 12:54 -0400, dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us
> wrote:
>> I have a weird issue where several users are recieving the same
>> email's multiple times.  Each email has a different que id, but are
>> exactly the same otherwise.  I thought at first this was a new spam,
>> but I have local users doing the same thing.   Im not sure where to
>> start looking for the root of this problem.  Seems to be pretty
>> widespread across multiple platforms.   I currently utilize openldap
>> for user database, sendmail, Dovecot-Imap, and horde webmail.  Im not
>> sure where to start digging for this problem, Ive scanned through all
>> my log files and havent found anything.  Any guidance would be great.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> ddh
>>
>>
>



-- 
Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools



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