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Subject: Re: Mail delivered over and over again
From: Philippe Rodriguez (Philippe.Rodriguezesisar.inpg.fr)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 04:21:57 CDT

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).
>
> I hope somebody can help. I'm getting calls of annoyed users all day...
>
> Christoph Martyn
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Philippe RODRIGUEZ - Ingénieur Système ESISAR - INPG
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