Re: [Courier-imap] Emails sent exactly twice.
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From: Keith P H. <kei...@re...> - 2007-02-23 19:28:07
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On 2/23/2007 2:16 PM, Don Piven wrote: > Also sprach Keith P Hassen: >> On 2/23/2007 11:39 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >>> * Keith P Hassen <kei...@re...>: >>>> Hello, any time I use IMAP, my mail is getting delivered exactly twice. >>>> This only occurs with IMAP, not with POP3. >>>> >>>> My MTA is Postfix, and I see it picking up mail from both the "smtpd" >>>> process and from the "pickup" process. Is there something in the way >>>> IMAP is configured that is causing this? >>> Open the mailbox (it's Maildir format) with >>> >>> mutt -f Maildir/ >>> >>> to see if there are duplicates. >>> >> Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear: mail is getting delivered to *other* >> domains twice. So, I send mail from my domain using IMAP to >> jo...@so..., and Joe receives the email exactly twice. When I >> receive mail at *my* domain, I get the email exactly once, as per usual. >> >> Again, this only occurs when I send mail using IMAP. > > Is it possible that your imapd is configured to provide an Outbox > (OUTBOX in the imapd config file)? From the config file: > > "If OUTBOX is defined, mail can be sent via the IMAP connection by > copying a message to the INBOX.Outbox folder. For all practical > matters, INBOX.Outbox looks and behaves just like any other IMAP folder. > If this folder doesn't exist it must be created by the IMAP mail > client, just like any other IMAP folder. The kicker: any message copied > or moved to this folder is will be E-mailed by the Courier-IMAP server, > by running the SENDMAIL program. Therefore, messages copied or moved to > this folder must be well-formed RFC-2822 messages, with the recipient > list specified in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers." > > It strikes me that if your IMAP client is set up to save sent items in, > say, "Outbox", it would be sent once via SMTP and then again when imapd > notices a new message in your Outbox. Hi, Yes, this was the problem. Someone identified this as the issue in an off-mailing-list message, so thanks very much for your input. -k |