Re: Sendmail sending multiple copies

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

That's what I thought at first.  It seems if one of
the recipients is refusing mail (over quotas) Sendmail
trys to resend to the whole list again.  It happened
with a large local distribution list as well.

--- Mark <mark@bish.net> wrote:
> 
> It could be the software managing the lists.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Robert Threet wrote:
> 
> > Anytime mass mailings go out, whether from mailing
> > lists or just large distributions, people recieve
> > multiple copies of the e-mail - sometimes in
> excess of
> > 100 copies!  I thought it was bad mailing lists at
> > first but now I'm not so sure.  
> > 
> > I had heard some of the old copies of sendmail
> would
> > sometimes do this if there was an error on the
> list. 
> > This is an AIX install from January of this year -
> > brand new.  A new sendmail came out for it in
> March. 
> > I'll try that.  Is it a config problem?
> > 
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