duplicate truncated message problem - MS + Postfix

[Ron E.]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Drew Marshall wrote:

> Ron E. wrote:
>
> >Some time ago there was some discussion of a problem where, in certain
> >versions of MailScanner & postfix occasionally a message will be
> >deelivered twice - once with headers only and the second with the entire
> >message.
> >
> >I then checked and found that this is happening currently on a system I
> >have here with postfix 2.0.9-2 and mailscanner 4.24-5.
> >
> >Is anyone else still having this problem? It seems to happen only when the
> >system is under load and backlogs.
> >
> >
> >
> No but I moved to a single instance Postfix set up, which cured the
> problem even with the older versions of MS. I *believe* that Julian is
> happy that he has fixed it in the later versions but I can't confirm it,
> sorry.
>
> >Would be interested in any input.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ron
> >
> >
> Drew
>
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Thanks Drew,

That sounds very interesting - how did you manage a single instance of
postfix?

-Ron