Re: [Devel] HEY, I SENT IT ONLY ONCE!

[Antoine Leca]

Sorry to add to the troll...

On Monday, September 13, 2004 11:06 AM, Henrik Grubbström va escriure:

> From the headers:
>
>> Received: by clara1.tuxeon.com (Postfix, from userid 520)
>>         id 623FFC5B2; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:30:02 +0200 (CEST)
>> Delivered-To: address@hidden
>> Received: from mta1.in.adinet.com.uy (r200-40-30-222.antel.net.uy
>>     [200.40.30.222])
>>         by clara1.tuxeon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4A0C537
>>         for <address@hidden>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:18:23 +0200
>>     (CEST)
>> Received: from PEPINO (200.40.226.250) by
>>     mta1.in.adinet.com.uy (7.0.027) (authenticated as fpapa)
>>         id 40F7CB2600B9E011; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:16:51 -0300
>
> It indeed looks like you only sent it once, but the culprit seems to
> be mta1.in.adinet.com.uy (r200-40-30-222.antel.net.uy
> [200.40.30.222]), which seems to repost the message to the list every
> minute.

Hmmm, no.
http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/devel/2004-September/thread.html only has
one exemplary. The copy is at
http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/devel/2004-September/010997.html, and you
will notice:
 - that it is longer;
 - that the beginning of the missing part is a single dot on a line.

And the problem is that this is precisely the signal of end of message for
SMTP. So I assume that in this setup of mailman+postfix, there is a misfit
(one is forgotting to embeed the dot with a second dot, as prescribed by RFC
[2]822; or the other is trying to removing it twice; or there is an
intervening tool that mess it).
Then, while sending the mail, nobody notices the 354 ack, so the furious
pair mailman+postfix think the message has not been delivered successfully,
and they try again. Perhaps after 5 days the master program will notice the
problem, and there is a chance we will ALL be marked as "unable to deliver"
:-(.

I tried to contact the administradors this morning, however unsuccessfully:
David's (past?) professional domain is now in redemption period (look at
http://whois.oleane.net/whois.html), so mail is not delivered... I tried a
couple of obvious addresses at the host, without success. Probably we should
back up on regular phone...


Antoine