[Dovecot] Multiple copies of a message
Asheesh Laroia
asheesh at asheesh.org
Wed Jan 30 00:04:52 EET 2008
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have a problem and I don't know which part of the mail chain could be
> causing it, although dovecot does seem to be the most logical source.
>
> I get multiple copies of messages to my Inbox. I have just deleted 24
> copies of a newsletter from Computer Shopper. The worst example I have
> seen of this had more than 90 copies. This doesn't happen to any
> subfolder of Inbox, just Inbox itself.
Does your SMTP server's logs indicate receiving it multiple times?
Me, I use a procmail recipe that removes duplicates, so I don't see
duplicate messages if they have the same Message ID. Also, what do the
headers of these "duplicates" suggest - are they fully identical?.
-- Asheesh.
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