duplicate emails being generated from outbound mailscanner queue

[Martin.Hepworth]

Gordon

MailScanner doesn't do any delivery - this is down to the MTA (sendmail
in your case).

Is this happening for a single remote server, or many. If any
similarities in the remote MTA (MS-Exch etc)..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gordon Colyn
> Sent: 08 March 2007 15:07
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: duplicate emails being generated from outbound mailscanner
queue
>
> ITNT Banner CampaignI have an intermittent problem with my Mailscanner
at
> the moment with emails larger than 2mb.  The mail will sit in the
outbound
> queue and Mailscanner will continually attempt to deliver the email
> without
> success, getting a deferred timeout error.  On the receiving server
> however
> the mail is accepted each time and delivered to the users mailbox
creating
> a
> duplicate mail at each attempt until the email is deleted from the
> Mailscanner queue.  Both servers are on the same lan and subnet.
>
> I am running;
> Mandriva 2006
> MailScanner 4.57.6
> sendmail 8.13.4
> clamav 0.87
>
> This server is delivering to a Mandrake 10.1 server with sendmail
8.13.1
>
> How can I sort this problem out?
>
> Regards
> Gordon Colyn
> InTheNet Technologies
> www.itnt.co.za
> MSN: gordoncolyn at hotmail.com
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