Duplicate emails - same smtp id processed by different MS processes.

Tue Dec 7 17:58:07 GMT 2004

Ah, the Wise one has spoken. I see the option in the conf file.

Could that explain why I'm also seeing email's that have no message and
are
are followed up by the the complete email?

Thanks Julian.

>>> mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 12/7/2004 10:34:51 AM >>>
With sendmail-8.13 on Linux systems, you need to set "Lock Type =
posix"
in MailScanner.conf.

Jeff Falgout wrote:

>I'm stumped on this one . . .
>
>[root at ww11 root]# rpm -q mailscanner
>mailscanner-4.36.4-1
>[root at ww11 root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
>[root at ww11 root]# rpm -q sendmail
>sendmail-8.13.1-1.rhl9
>
>
>The following is a sample of duplicate emails that have been popping
up
>intermittently -
>
>Header of both duplicate emails (same for both):
>
>Return-path: <user at lfcplans.com>
>Received: from ww11.co.jefferson.co.us [172.18.2.30]
>        by relay.co.jefferson.co.us; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:07:54 -0700
>Received: from smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net
>(smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.68])
>        by ww11.co.jefferson.co.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id
>iB7F7nkC028885
>        for <webmaster.list at co.jefferson.co.us>; Tue, 7 Dec 2004
>08:07:49 -0700
>Message-Id: <200412071507.iB7F7nkC028885 at ww11.co.jefferson.co.us>
>Received: from [66.32.253.1] (helo=LFC)
>        by smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34)
>        id 1CbgwO-0002Sz-1W
>        for webmaster.list at co.jefferson.co.us; Tue, 07 Dec 2004
10:07:48
>-0500
>From: "User Name" <user at lfcplans.com>
>To: <webmaster.list at co.jefferson.co.us>
>Subject: broken link
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:07:45 -0500
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>        boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002D_01C4DC44.99BD66B0"
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353
>Thread-Index: AcTcboFzaT/QCzA/QyiZU0c9Y6C1ig==
>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
>X-ELNK-Trace:
>feb5d6ea45e01ec46a4deeea1b09fa1d9ef193a6bfc3dd4839521e14bdc0f52fceabc8245eb83f64a7ce0e8f8d31aa3f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c
>X-Originating-IP: 66.32.253.1
>X-JeffCo-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the Help Desk for
more
>information
>X-JeffCo-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-JeffCo-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=1.75,
>        required 4, BAYES_00 -0.05, HTML_90_100 0.02, HTML_MESSAGE
>0.00,
>        MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER 0.05, MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID 1.72)
>X-JeffCo-MailScanner-SpamScore:  1.75
>X-MailScanner-From: user at lfcplans.com
>
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
>
>
>Entries in the maillog:
>
>[root at ww11 root]# grep iB7F7nkC028885 /var/log/maillog*
>/var/log/maillog:Dec  7 08:07:49 ww11 sendmail[28885]:
iB7F7nkC028885:
>from=<user at lfcplans.com>, size=7080, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<200412071507.iB7F7nkC028885 at ww11.co.jefferson.co.us>,
>proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net
>[209.86.89.68]
>/var/log/maillog:Dec  7 08:07:53 ww11 MailScanner[26795]: Content
>Checks: Detected and will disarm HTML message in iB7F7nkC028885
>/var/log/maillog:Dec  7 08:07:54 ww11 MailScanner[26499]: Content
>Checks: Detected and will disarm HTML message in iB7F7nkC028885
>/var/log/maillog:Dec  7 08:07:54 ww11 sendmail[28974]:
iB7F7nkC028885:
>to=aaaaa,bbbb,cccc,dddd,eeee, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:01,
>mailer=relay, pri=127080, relay=relay.co.jefferson.co.us.
[172.16.8.29],
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok)
>/var/log/maillog:Dec  7 08:07:54 ww11 sendmail[28982]:
iB7F7nkC028885:
>to=aaaaa,bbbb,cccc,dddd,eeee,  delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00,
>mailer=relay, pri=127080, relay=relay.co.jefferson.co.us.
[172.16.8.29],
>dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok)
>[root at ww11 root]#
>
>
>Notice the same smtp id is processed by 2 MailScanner processes? The
>end result is 2 emails to the recipients.
>
>Any ideas???
>
>

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