Double messages

[Steven Stern]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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


Press CTRL-U to see all headers in tbird.