Double messages

[Gijs]

Hehe, Karl kinda has a history on this list, it's not that everyone is 
unfriendly to everyone. They are just making an exception :)

lwaynej wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 16:07 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:
>   
>> Today Karl Larsen did spake thusly:
>>
>>     
>>>   I noticed my messages were sent twice to the Fedora list. They are coming 
>>> from somewhere outside my smtp server. Does anyone else have the same 
>>> problem?
>>>
>>>   Now all messages to Fedora are sent twice. No other lists have this 
>>> problem. So it must be a problem at Fedora or a more complex problem.
>>>       
>> We're not getting any of your messages twice. PEBKAC?
>>
>>     
>
> Wow, this has to be one of the rudest lists I have been on. 
>
> I am getting doubles of a lot of messages. I am sure it not a PEBKAC. 
>
> This happens from time to time. E-mail messages don't necessarily travel
> directly from the Fedora email server to mine. If I counted correctly,
> there were about 10 'received from 's in this emails message header.
> >From what I understand each one of these servers receives the messages,
> queues it and then passes it on. Sometimes servers end up sending queued
> messages more than once for various reasons.
>
> It has been some years since I studied this. I thought there was a way
> for an email client to uniquely identify messages in order resolve this
> issue but I can't remember what is was. I don't see anything in the
> message header. I want to compare message headers between the duplicate
> messages but I can only find one in my trash.
>
> In any case some of the suggestion don't seem to be very well thought
> out. Since Karl is just noticing this today I doubt it is some sort of
> issue with his account or client configuration, unless there is some
> sort of option to randomly duplicate emails.
>
> I think it would also be unreasonable to think this is some sort of
> 'practical joke.' There are much better jokes to play on people and this
> phenomenon is not at all uncommon.
>
>   
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