Problem with duplicate message delivery

[Julian Field]

At 15:41 06/11/2003, you wrote:
>here is my setup
>
>MailScanner-4.21-9
>Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55
>Sendmail-8.12.9
>Solaris 9
>
>MailScanner is set to deliver in batch mode. this works fine most of the
>time. We have an alias which expands to ~1000 names. 900 of the names
>are local, the rest go to about 25 different ISPs.
>
>I run a sendmail queue to retry missed deliveries. When the server is
>busy the mailscanner batch delivery to the 1000 names can take more than
>one hour. The problem is that the sendmail queue sees the job and
>decides to process the same message.

This sounds like a sendmail locking problem. It shouldn't ever let itself
make 2 attempts to deliver the same message.


>Has anyone else encountered this problem and been able to overcome it? I
>hope that shortening my sendmail timeouts along with lengthening the
>time between queue redelivery attempts will help. I don't want to switch
>MailScanner from batch to queue because my users are used to 10 second
>message delivery and I want to keep it that fast when possible.
>
>Regards,
>Steve Lee
>--
>Stephen J. Lee                  Saint Joseph's University
>Senior Systems Administrator    5600 City Avenue
>Networking & Telecommunications Philadelphia, PA 19131-1395
>E-mail: lee at sju.edu             Voice: (610) 660-1679
>                                 Fax: (610) 660-1573

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Julian Field
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