On Tuesday 29 Jan 2008, you wrote:
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?
I don't have one of the big ones still on my disk, but I have a couple where I have allowed two copies to remain. /var/log/maillog shows just one copy of each of them.
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?.
They are identical until the last lines, which read
X-UID: 2039 X-KMail-Filtered: 65014 Status: RO X-Status: OC
and
X-UID: 2040 X-KMail-Filtered: 65015 Status: RO X-Status: OC
Similarly,
X-UID: 2041 X-KMail-Filtered: 65016 Status: RO X-Status: OAC
and
X-UID: 2042 X-KMail-Filtered: 65017 Status: RO X-Status: OAC
Anne