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Subject: Re: Mail delivered over and over again
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 04:28:46 CDT

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:15:30AM +0200, 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?

Remove the message from the queue: /var/spool/postfix/deferred/<Queueu-id>

> 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).
>
> I hope somebody can help. I'm getting calls of annoyed users all day...

You need an owner- alias: For example owner-alle for the alias alle 

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