same msgid

[Julian Field]

At 19:19 28/01/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>the sender(owner of the list denies) and found that someone is trying to
>forge him..
>How do I make sure that they are being repeatedly sent? any hints

Check your maillog. You should have a maillog entry for every incoming
message that is queued awaiting processing by MailScanner. You should have
an entry with "stat=queued" for incoming messages and "stat=sent" for
outgoing messages.


>Thanx for your reply
>Harish
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:52 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: same msgid
>
>
>Are you sure that they are not being repeatedly sent to your server? That
>is the most common reason for this problem.
>
>At 17:47 28/01/2003, you wrote:
> >I am having some duplicate messages problem on out list server
> >
> >since Sunday we are having someone sending about 40 to 60 messages to
>entire
> >list containing several members
> >
> >here's my Mailllog file
> >I noticed that all have same msgid=<se354441 , how is this possible
> >Thanx for any help
> >
> >-----Original Message-----# grep mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.milw.wi.voyager.net
> >syslog* |more
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:41:51 badger sendmail[14858]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKfoI14858: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1603,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:43:52 badger sendmail[14934]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKhpI14934: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1624,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:45:57 badger sendmail[15016]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKjtI15016: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1645,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:47:52 badger sendmail[15108]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKlpI15108: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1666,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:49:54 badger sendmail[15206]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKnrI15206: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1687,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:51:50 badger sendmail[15289]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKpnI15289: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1708,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
> >syslog:Jan 27 14:53:53 badger sendmail[15364]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> >h0RKrqI15364: from=<stanley.j.potts at uwrf.edu>, size=1729,
> >  class=-60, nrcpts=3, msgid=<se354441.015 at adngate.adn.uwrf.edu>,
> >proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-IPv4, relay=mcda4-4-0-0-321.rback0.mi
> >lw.wi.voyager.net [169.207.146.116] (may be forged)
>
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