Re: Looping message delivery - qmail and fetchmail problem

[Tomasz Nidecki <tonid@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tig <tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in 
news:20040105212053.5b4084f9@xxxxxxxxxx:

>> Something is causing the message delivery to fail, but instead of
>> being bounced it's being redelivered by qmail over and over and over.
>  
> I'm not 100% sure I follow whats going on, but could the 'user' have
> 'leave mail on server' or something like that still set in their client
> (from before, when qmail was not used).

That is not the cause.

I double checked it, turning off the option to leave mail on server. The 
same thing happens.

It looks like the following:

1. fetchmail fetches mail from the free account

2. fetchmail injects the mail into local queue

3. fetchmail deletes the mail from the free account

4. qmail delivers the message to the local user

5. qmail succeeds in delivery, but is somehow mistaken, that the delivery 
has failed and retries the delivery over and over and over and over and 
over...

When I turn off fetchmail - the mails still keep coming and coming. So 
the only thing that could be fetchmail's fault is somehow injecting the 
message so that it breaks down qmail.

What I will try is turn of bogofilter for a while and instead of using 
maildrop to deliver, I will use qmail directly. Perhaps it's maildrop 
that's causing this... But I use maildrop on other accounts with no such 
problems...

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