[H-GEN] Double Delivery

[Bruce Campbell]

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On 27 Sep 2002, Rick Phillips wrote:

>     So, caliburn isn't unwell, but you are subscribed to the list twice.  You
>     wish to take this matter up with general-owner at humbug.org.au , or
>     properly unsubscribe your old email address.

> Thanks Bruce - you told me what I suspected.  I have now twice tried to
> unsubscribe my old address @hcinternet (using in the body "unsubscribe
> general rickp at hcinternet.com.au") and each time received a "success"

It'd probably work better if you sent that message From
'rickp at hcinternet.com.au', rather than From 'rickp at sunstatestamps.com.au'.

The messages that majordomo was sending back would have read something
like:

	'You are not that address.  This has been forwarded to the
	 moderator who may approve the request at some point in time.'

( The Humbug list moderators are currently Jason and myself, and with time
  constraints, spam level and general 'if you hand hold them, they will
  keep coming back, if you wait for a nice public example to come along,
  you get more out of the way at once and can get some work done'
  attitude, we may not approve each and every request ;) )

> response. Please however be patient with old farts like me.  Everything
> I know (and it's not much) about Linux I have taught myself and I have
> just been through the harrowing experience of setting up my own mail
> server with Qmail, ezmlm, auroreposnd et-al.  I fully expected the
> headers on each returned email to be identical in form - that's logical
> isn't it?  If the second had returned with hcinternet at the top like
> the first, then I wouldn't have troubled a soul.

Well, the second message that you quoted had a nice:

	Delivered-To: rickp at sunstatestamps.com.au

header, one of the few things about qmail that I actually like (although
the configuration is stamping headers with the IP of the internal
interface, not the (more useful) IP address of the external interface).

The first quoted message proudly declared that it was running 'Microsoft
SMTPSVC', and it doesn't add such nicities.

> If I knew what tolls to test with, I would be a very happy chappy - so
> where the f---'n hell does someone find "findsubsinipblock.pl".  I

You ask the author nicely ;)

--==--
Bruce.




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