Dual TO: names in Mailwatch

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Nov 10 14:03:05 GMT 2003


It's a known MailScanner bug. I just haven't got around to fixing it yet,
it's not exactly high priority at the moment.

At 13:59 10/11/2003, you wrote:
>Hi Pete,
>
>This is a MailScanner or Postfix issue as MailWatch only uses information
>from MailScanner's $message object which is populated by MailScanner
>parseing the Postfix message file.
>
>You'll also find the same problem of duplicated 'To' entries in the admin
>notices as reported by someone else.
>
>The postcat command didn't really give me much to go on at all (thought it'd
>be better than that) - so I'll have a Google around and see if I can find
>any info about the file spec for Postfix and see if I can find the problem.
>
>Regards,
>Steve.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pete russell <pete at EATATHOME.COM.AU>
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Mon Nov 10 13:47:28 2003
>Subject: Re: Dual TO: names in Mailwatch
>
>Funny, this happened ona %100 fresh install of mailscanner and fedora
>and MW .4 - my previous post was regarding my existing MW .3 machines.
>
>If you do find a fault I can repair myself, please le tme know as I
>would like to fix the .3 install on the production servers - cos I wont
>be moving to .4 just yet.
>
>thanks
>Pete
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Steve Freegard
>Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 12:37 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Dual TO: names in Mailwatch
>
>Hi Pete,
>
>Can you stop the outbound queue runner temporarily to stop the messages
>that
>have been processed by MailScanner from being delievered, then run the
>'postcat' command across one of the messages and post the output to the
>list.
>
>Kind regards,
>Steve.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pete russell <pete at EATATHOME.COM.AU>
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Mon Nov 10 08:38:36 2003
>Subject: Dual TO: names in Mailwatch
>
>I have the latest version of mailwatch, mailscanner, postfix, mysql and
>RH9 - in the TO: column, when looking at recent messages, all the names
>are listed twice - this also makes the Top Recipients by Volume graph
>unreadable as the legend has 2 entries for each person. Doesn't seem
>like we are getting 2 deliveries though, and doesn't seem like anything
>is written twice to the maillog.
>
>
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>
>Pete
>
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