Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > James Harper wrote: >> Is it just me, or did the list just duplicate about 20 emails from a few >> days ago? > > I've experienced this too, and they were definitely duplicates, but it > wasn't isolated to the bacula-users list. Some of the messages had > originated from my own net and never left the building. There were 50 or > 60 duplicate messages with date time stamps spanning a couple of days. > > Upon examining full headers of two identical messages, it appeared to be > some sort of snafu between my client and my server. Messages I had > downloaded and that should have been tagged as downloaded somehow got > downloaded again. Although the original headers and message-id (set by > sendmail on the server) were identical, and the date time stamp was > identical, the X-UIDL was different. I believe X-UIDL is written by > Thunderbird, since it is sandwiched between X-Account-Key and > X-Mozilla-Status in the headers. > > So, I am convinced that this was a network communication error or a > Thunderbird bug, although I would certainly grant that there are other > potential causes for this sort of thing. The fact that other people on > the bacula-users list did not experience the same thing, and that I had > messages duplicated that were totally isolated within my own net, makes > it clear that it had nothing to do with the bacula-users list. > > So the same would apply to Mr. Harper. It's just a coincidence that it > happened to both of us, but maybe that says something about the > occasional frequency of this sort of problem. I can remember it > happening once or twice in the past to me.
About once a month for me, for the last three versions of Thunderbird. The one and only similarity between each instance was that it only happens to listmail. I have never tracked down enough information to feel confident enough to file a bug report. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
