Change in subject line - its a different thread...
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 12:32, Angel Gabriel wrote:
> I decided to send out my list over the
> weekend... I came in today, *monday* and I found that a LOT of email boxes
> had gotten repeat emails, and really pissed off my subscribers. And I don't
> mean like two or three I mean REPEAT emails, like 12, 13. How can I found
> out what caused this?
The answer is you need to get at least 2 of the duplicates (ideally all
the duplicates that reached a single address), with the full headers -
specifically you need the received lines.
You then compare the received headers on each one and work out where the
paths of the 2 mails diverged.
This could be:-
- the original poster sent several copies (happens quite often)
in this case you see the received lines are different
at every stage
- the senders MTA duplicated it
(first - thats the bottom one in the message headers - received
line is exactly the same, the rest are different).
- mailman duplicated it
(different received lines on the list delivery MTA)
- the list delivery MTA duplicated it (subtly different)
- someone's virus scanner reinjected it (they *must* die!!!)
- someone's vacation mailer reinjected it (they must die and their
whole domain be blocked - actually same applies for the virus
scanner too).
There are other possibilities too... and never underestimate how
determined some idiots can be to loop your mail.
Nigel.
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