[sclug] duplicate mail

Dickon Hood sclug at splurge.fluff.org
Wed Jun 27 18:07:55 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 18:22:21 +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote:
: Dickon Hood <sclug at splurge.fluff.org> wrote:
: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:13:05 +0100, Darren Davison wrote:
: > : does anyone know why I might be receiving duplicate copies of most (but not
: > : all) sclug list mail? [...]
: > It's a bug in Tom's mail setup, from what I can tell.  I've no idea what
: > or why, but this is the only list to reliably and repeatedly duplicate
: > mail.

: It is probably just because most people are too lazy to clean up
: the To: and Cc: headers. For example, I expect Darren to receive
: two copies of this message (I left his address in To:) but Dickon
: to only receive one copy (I removed him).

It isn't.

: This appears to be a mailman list and it seems Mailman has a
: "no dupes" option. It just needs to be turned on.
: (If it is already on, I don't know what is causing the duplicates.)

No, the mailing list server is duplicating deliveries.  This is clear from
the headers.

I've been doing this long enough to know the difference :-)

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Dickon Hood

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No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking.



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