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- From: jns@ace.nas.nasa.gov (John N. Stewart)
- Subject: [5.61] SGI running 4d.4.0 and Sendmail 5.61
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 01:41:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.014153.22330@nas.nasa.gov>
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- ARCH: SGI/{SPS,Indigo,4D*} running 4d.4.0 and sendmail 5.61
- Problem: spurious problem with email lists
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- We have a series of email lists on SGI platforms, and 5.61 seems to
- have this curious notion that the delivery child should die every once
- and awhile, and then sendmail tries to resend all over again.
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- The final result is that numerous people on these lists receive the
- email multiple times. So far, there has been absolutely no pattern
- whatsoever -- near as I can tell. It has also happened with a single
- user recipient, but far more rarely.
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- A cohort of mine is evaling 5.67 to solve all of this, but for the
- interim we are stuck. Does _anyone_ else have this problem, or better
- yet, seen a solution?
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- Unacceptable answers: 1) move the lists to a Sun 2) disban all lists
- :))))
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- Thanx for any help...
-
- --Ace
-