Double messages
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Tue Jan 22 22:46:49 UTC 2008
Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> The way to send every message I get to another person is done in the
>> Tools -> Message Filters GUI system. I can't send pictures because they
>> are removed by the Fedora list. So I words here is what you do.
>>
>
> This is far from the only way to do this, incidentally. Doubling of messages
> can be easily set up in a mailserver (either sendmail or postfix or other),
> in somebody's procmail recipes, and several other different ways.
>
> They could even mail-bomb, in that they could send an endless number of
> messages your way, should someone desire to do so.
>
> But without the headers of the actual message duplicates that you are getting
> it is impossible to tell. What you need to be able to determine how and why
> the dupes are occurring is look in the full headers, specifically in the
> Return-path and Received: headers. If you've never traced e-mail headers
> before, there are a number of folks here who can if you'd like to send the
> full headers (headers only) in a message; you can start by sending it to me
> privately (not via the list) and then perhaps to the list, depending upon
> where the issue might lie (it could, for whatever reason, be related to the
> Fedora infrastructure issues/upgrades that have been happening lately, but it
> might not, too).
>
> But without seeing the headers and tracing the Received: trail you haven't
> proved the someone IS doing this just because you found one of the many ways
> that this CAN be done. The possibility does not make the certainty.
>
Hi, I will look for a way to show full headers on Thunderbird. I
will forward two identical messages to your address. Perhaps this will
solve this mess.
Karl
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