Dual TO: names in Mailwatch

[Chris Trudeau]

I tried to respond off list to Julian, but my mail was returned.

I've been begging for this for months and would entertain the idea of paying
someone (anyone) to escalate the priority of this problem...

Thanks!

CT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Dual TO: names in Mailwatch


> 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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