Double messages

[Karl Larsen]

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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