aha! we use cucipop as well. there's only one 'error locking' message in
the logs, but there are plenty of these:
cucipop[20914]: Invalid command capa - -
i've tried to figure out what this means, but i have no clue. could this
be indicative of what you're talking about?
if outlook clients are sending messages that cause this, what steps can be
taken to prevent it?
thanks-
dan
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:03:20PM -0500, Daniel Kelley wrote:
> >
> > i am having the *exact* same problem. it only happens with mails
> > originating outside our domain, and tehre's no rhyme or reason to it.
> > our logs do show
> >
> > seems to happen more often with hotmail and yahoo. it's also happend with
> > this list! the only constant i can see between the three is that they all
> > (i think) use qmail for outgoing mail.
> >
> > i can't comfirm that this has happend at all when the mail server is
> > anything but qmail. how could this be the common link?
>
> Are you seeing this as SMTP level? We get duplicated messages frequently
> but it's always (as far as I can tell) a pop issue. It is always solved by
> deleting an improperly formatted multipart mime message, almost always
> from outlook. The logs show somthing like "unable to lock mailbox; connection
> lost" or something similar. That's with cucipop.
>
> >
> > dan
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kep Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Ok I am still having problems with the same emails getting delivered
> > > multiple times. And am baffled by what to do. The higher ups are pushing
> > > REAL hard to switch to Microsoft Exchange so I need at least some ideas on
> > > what to try next.
> > >
> > > History,
> > > Certain email messages, sent from outside our local network, with the
> > > Reply to header set to our home domain, ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent using local
> > > ISPs email server, get delivered multiple times. It is not consistant, one
> > > time a message sent to certain users will only get delivered once, the next
> > > time a message sent to the same users will start looping, get delivered
> > > multiple times.
> > >
> > > Information
> > > Far servers logs show a lost connection while sending end of data.
> > > local sever shows no errors in maillog or messages. With recordio turned
> > > on the conversations look the same for correctly delivered messages as
> > > incorrectly delivered messages.
> > >
> > > ANY help or suggestions or.......... would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Kep
> > >
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ----
> > >
> > > Kep Brown
> > > Systems, Network and Database Administrator
> > > phone: (805) 560-3781
> > > fax: (805) 560-3991
> > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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>
> Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
> 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/
> Content management, electronic commerce, internet integration, Debian linux
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