Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Duplicate Messages
On 18/05/06, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote: > I'm having an odd problem and wondering if anyone else is seeing it.
>
> On rare occasions a user will get several duplicate messages. What
> appears to be happening is that the sending server completes the
> transfer and Exim accepts it, but the sending server thinks the delivery
> failed and therefore resends the same message.
>
> It only happens with specific servers. The duplicates always come from
> the same place. And it's rare enough that I can't seem to isolate it.
> Most of the time everything works.
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
Yes - a colleague reported one such to me only today. All messages
from one specific source are being duplicated. Haven't done much
investigating yet, but the logs here show multiple successful
deliveries.
