[EXIM] Duplicate sends for a mailing list

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Author: Pete Ashdown
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To: exim-users
Subject: [EXIM] Duplicate sends for a mailing list
I have continual grief over Exim redelivering messages to some mailing
lists, up to three or four times. My guess is that Exim is looking at
delivery to an included aliase as a whole, rather than individual
addresses. Thus if an individual address has delivery problems, there is
potential for redelivery to the entire list.

Is there a way to make Exim expand included aliases to individual
addresses? Here's some headers from a duplicated message. This list has
nearly 20,000 subscribers and is very prone to this problem:

Original, note the reception time and ID from good.net:
Received: from [198.60.22.7] (helo=lists.xmission.com)
        by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1)
        id 0zOMnj-0007P2-00; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:00:19 -0600
Received: from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 2.04 #1)
        id 0zOMCU-0002Gs-00
        for lds-gems-goout@???; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 07:21:50 -0600
Received: from [207.98.129.1] (helo=goodnet.com)
        by lists.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1)
        id 0zOMCS-0002G2-00
        for lds-gems@???; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 07:21:48 -0600
Received: from localhost by goodnet.com with ESMTP id GAA12291
        for <lds-gems@???>; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 06:24:22 -0700 (MST)


Duplicate with the same reception ID:
Received: from [198.60.22.7] (helo=lists.xmission.com)
        by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1)
        id 0zOQHB-0002BN-00; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:42:57 -0600
Received: from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 2.04 #1)
        id 0zOPnX-0003lo-00
        for lds-gems-goout@???; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:12:19 -0600
Received: from [207.98.129.1] (helo=goodnet.com)
        by lists.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1)
        id 0zOMCS-0002G2-00
        for lds-gems@???; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 07:21:48 -0600
Received: from localhost by goodnet.com with ESMTP id GAA12291
        for <lds-gems@???>; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 06:24:22 -0700 (MST)



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