[Dovecot] Multiple copies of a message

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Wed Jan 30 00:04:52 EET 2008


On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> I have a problem and I don't know which part of the mail chain could be 
> causing it, although dovecot does seem to be the most logical source.
>
> I get multiple copies of messages to my Inbox.  I have just deleted 24 
> copies of a newsletter from Computer Shopper.  The worst example I have 
> seen of this had more than 90 copies.  This doesn't happen to any 
> subfolder of Inbox, just Inbox itself.

Does your SMTP server's logs indicate receiving it multiple times?

Me, I use a procmail recipe that removes duplicates, so I don't see 
duplicate messages if they have the same Message ID.  Also, what do the 
headers of these "duplicates" suggest - are they fully identical?.

-- Asheesh.

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