RE: [Sheflug] mail echo

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Hi Ross,

First off, this is where the mail is going:

<suck eggs> reading from the bottom to the top of the headers </suck eggs>
================================================================
It was sent from Brad to agenda users with a subject of "Agenda Store
Services Restored"

vaio 64.160.12.31 sent it to MTA5

MTA5 (206.13.28.241) sent it to irv1

irv1 sent it to irv1 via the loopback interface **** hmm. I've had to do
this a few times and never like doing it!

irv1 (216.177.67.163) then sent it to mta07-svc Just how many interfaces
does irv1have? and what processing was done on the system requiring the
loopback interface?

Then you popped it off pop.ntl to your local machine

then you recieved it at root [at] localhost (I'm not familiar with the addressing
here!)

then mta06 gets it back from localhost.localdomain

then irv2 gets it from NTL
=====================================================
OK then. The looping on irv1 is nothing to do with it. But its not a pretty
looking solution. I guess that is where the mailman server is?

as you say, you appear to be recieving the mail and then sending it straight
back out.

Q1) You fetch it and then do what with it? You are running it through your
MTA? Yes?

Q2) you wouldn't be dropping it in the outbox on your local machine would
you? That is my guess. Although if that is happening, you are preserving the
original headers remarkably well.

Can you you us through the machines and accounts and directories on your
local machines. That should include the fetchmail config and the MTA config.
I.E. where the mails are put and where they are sent from.

The other strange thing is that it just seems to be one list that is causing
problems. May be you've got some mail rules in there that are doing
something strange because of some of the headers. Do you use procmail or
some such to move stuff around mail boxes?

Sorry I can't come up with an answer just yet. If you can let me know more,
I may be able to find it.

Any body disagree with what I've put above?

Lewis


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Ross's Mail
> Sent: 07 February 2001 18:36
> To: Sheflug
> Subject: [Sheflug] mail echo
>
>
> hi all,
>
> i'm still getting flack about my mail echo'ing in a mailing list! :-(
>
> i've been sent a transcript of an echo (shown below). the problem seems to
> be that my machine, when it recieves mail from the list, sends (what they
> are calling)an echo back to them.
>
> i am still seeing a large quantity of data leaving my machine when i run
> sendmail after fetchmail.
>
> ie
> i run sendmail to send offline created emails
> i run fetchmail to retrieve mail from the isp pop3 server
> next time i run the above programs, i get a proportional amount of data
> leaving my machine to the quantity of mail i have recieved. this
> can clearly
> be seen when i only recieve one or two mailing.
>
> i have not configured sendmail (knowingly) to send acknoledgements (or
> fetchmail for that matter). my mail client (kmail) doesn't either.
>
> this data leaving my machine is not limited to their mailing lists either.
> it occurs with all email i recieve. no one else has complained
> and i'm sure
> it's a quirk of their system......
> but can anyone help?
> it's important to me to recieve the mailings from this group.
> unfortunately
> they are unwilling to help as they see the problem being at my end!
>
> thanks
> ross
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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