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Subject: Re: Mail delivered over and over again
From: Christoph Martyn (christoph.martyncurry.de)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 04:26:36 CDT

No, there are no .forward files for users.

Christoph

Philippe Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Just a little question : does users have .forward file ?
> If so, there could be an error in one of these files.
>
> Phil.
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Christoph Martyn wrote:
>
> > Hallo,
> >
> > after running postfix for eleven months now I suddenly have a very
> > bizarre problem that I couldn't find an answer to: I have a mail alias
> > that contains all employees at my site and since yesterday a message
> > posted to that aliases gets resend every hour or so. I found a mistake
> > in /etc/aliases (typo with new user) and fixed it. I checked
> > /etc/aliases a dozen times and I'm absolutely sure tere is no mistake in
> > there anymore. I stopped and restarted postfix on both our main mail
> > server and on the gateway server where it's also running and also did a
> > postfix flush. Mail aliases (we have several) have beeen working
> > perfectly (as did everything else) for the last eleven months.
> > My first concern is: how do I get the repeatedly sent messages out of
> > the system?
> > My second concern is: how do I prevent this problem in the future? I'm
> > using postfix in the version of March 99. I saw no reason to update as
> > it was always working perfectly and I'm a "burned kid" (never touch a
> > running system).

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