Re: Duplicate posts- reply

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:26 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Aug2006 17:25, Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net> wrote:
> | The messages are identical the headers are not. In each case the problem
> | arises because hormel.redhat.com sends the same message again at
> | different times.
> 
> I ran into a similar problem in a former life. We were resending
> messages to a particular domain. That domain's mail server would not
> complete the SMTP transaction correctly and our mail service thus
> decided that the message had not been delivered correctly. It retired
> later, and of course the busted SMTP transaction failed again.
> 
> However, the receiving mail system had accepted the email. So multiple
> copies were dispatched.
> 
> It took the combination of a slightly picky (i.e. careful and robust) sending
> system at our end (postfix) and a stupid broken system at the other end. As I recall
> the other end wasn't sending the final ack for the QUIT or something
> like that.
> 
> Telnet to their mail server and a manual message injection showed us the problem.
> -- 
I just don't see how to do wat you are suggesting. Could yu explain more
fully? Off List if necessary. From the messages I sent which mail server
do you suggest we look at for the problem?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>