Hmm. Thats interesting. The thing is, its only happening for one user that I'm aware of. Also, I probably should of mentioned that I'm using Maildir ... I'm sure that changes things :)
-Phillip
Stewart Dean wrote:
When this happens with sendmail, it can be that the queue handler doesn't finish before a new queue handler is kicked off, so each successive queue handler/runner ends up sending the same mail. Background: sendmail, and perhaps postfix, is configured to a) toss stuff it can't handle right away into the queue and then, every so often (interval to be set by admin), it burps the queue. If the interval is too short, the previous queue handler/runner doesn't complete before a new one is invoked and gets it list of things to mail...with the same email on both queue handler/runners incarnations to do list...........
Phillip T. George wrote:
Hello all,
Definitely congrats on the 1.0.0 release!
Anyway, I'm having a problem, that may or may not be related to Dovecot. Specifically, duplicate (and sometimes triplicate) emails are appearing. These emails have exactly the same queue ID, so its not that they were sent multiple times. These dup emails do not show up to me ever.
Postfix is being used as the SMTP, and it hands it over to procmail.
I set up procmail's verbose logging feature for that user and on the duplicate emails that he receives, it shows only ONE write to a file for that specific subject of email. Tonight / this morning I'll be tracking down to see if this duplicate for sure happens in IMAP.Note: Its possible that part of the problem is he leaves two IMAP clients open at the same time (Netscape I think). I'm going to verify that with him.
Any ideas? I'm NOT trying to blame Dovecot, I'm just trying to explore options. Right now its looking fairly bad for Dovecot though....I mean, what else is there after the mail is delivered to the appropriate place in the mailbox?
Software versions: postfix 2.3.8 procmail 3.22 dovecot 1.0.rc28
Thanks, Phillip