Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 02:38:11 -0500 From: Matt Rosenberg <matt@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: runaway e-mail Message-ID: <324249E3.4818@www.wulaw.wustl.edu>
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I just had the strangest thing happen on my FreeBSD 2.1.5 system.
Everything had been running great in the mail subsytem ever since
it was installed more than a year ago as 2.0.5. All of the sudden,
tonight one of the e-mail messages with what looks like a proper
header was replicated more than a dozen times. I checked the mail logs
of both the sending (a Novell GroupWise) and receiving systems and
confirmed that the message only came over in one connection. It was
properly distributed to two lists on the system, but for some reason,
stayed in the mailq and with the same message ID was redistributed every
half-hour exactly (the time I have sendmail set to reprocess the queue).
Eventually after about 7 hours of this named crashed and dumped for the
first time in the history of the system. This then of course stacked up
the rest of the system until I was woken up from a peaceful sleep and
found 517 messages sitting in the queue -- almost all for nslookup
failures (due to the named crash). What I'm dying to know is what
caused the same message to stay in the queue and replicate so many
times? Here is the header from the message:
>From MCCARTNEY@wulaw.wustl.edu Thu Sep 19 20:09:59 1996
Received: from wulaw.wustl.edu ([128.252.251.28]) by
server.wulaw.wustl.edu (8.7
.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA11717; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:54:24 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from WULAW-Message_Server by wulaw.wustl.edu
with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:52:30 -0600
Message-Id: <s2417a4e.002@wulaw.wustl.edu>
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:42:54 -0600
From: Peggy McCartney <MCCARTNEY@wulaw.wustl.edu>
To: 1997@server.wulaw.wustl.edu, 1998@server.wulaw.wustl.edu,
brogan@wulaw.wustl.edu, williamsl@wulaw.wustl.edu
Subject: D.C. Job Fair
Status: O
X-Status:
The server.wulaw.wustl.edu is our system and users 1997 and 1998 are
class lists. Here are the appropriate /etc/aliases lines:
1997: :include:/var/mail/lists/1997
1998: :include:/var/mail/lists/1998
Anyone have any ideas??
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Matt Rosenberg
Washington University School of Law
St. Louis, MO, USA
matt@www.wulaw.wustl.edu
http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/~matt/
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