Re: Messages downloading multiple times

[Wayne Heming]

You may think its broken or a red herring, but I think you may have missed 
a point.

This is exactly how sendmail operates, and yes it may be 5 days instead of 
4. If there is a way around it I would like to know, but a lot of "so 
called" sendmail gurus have looked and think it is correct.

The main point is that the message is sent to the users on the same domain 
from a user of that domain and the mailbox has to be over quota, lets face 
it, this doesn't happen that often.

I was just offering another scenario where someone receives multiple copies 
of the same message. I have only seen it once, and it was one of the users 
with an empty box that complained about it.

Wayne

At 12:53 AM 24/12/2003, Joe Maimon wrote:


Alan Brown wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Wayne Heming wrote:



It then returns an error to the sender saying that a mailbox is full and it
will retry sending for 4 days.

To the best of my recollection the default is 5 days.

sendmail then sends the message to all addressees and continues to do so
until it is successfully delivered to all addressees.
I have never seen this behavior in any of my sendmails. I think it is safe 
to say this is a red herring.

Uh..... That should NEVER happen.

Sendmail keeps track of sucessful and unsucessful deliveries. If you're
seeing this behaviour then something is really badly broken.