[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 :-)
--
Dickon Hood
Due to digital rights management, my .sig is temporarily unavailable.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. We apologise for the
inconvenience in the meantime.
No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking.
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