Double spooling/sending problem

From: Phil Barbier (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 11:01:27 EST

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    Hi there all,

    I've got a strange problem that manifested itself (seemingly from
    nowhere) after a crash/load spike and subsequent hard reset of my web
    server. The server is a FBSD6.1 box, and postfix runs alongside
    apache (1.3.xx) in a jail, all was working just fine prior to the
    reboot (at least I assume the reboot is partially responsible here).

    I am getting two copies of every e-mail that is set to go out. I've
    tested this with our web-based eNewsletter software, it sends two. I
    checked the software, made sure things looked OK there - the software
    is behaving properly.

    I then set up a fake cronjob, to test whether the cron report came
    twice. It did. (something like 00 0 * * * /path/to/nothing in the
    crontab).

    I telnetted to the server on port 25, sent a message using raw SMTP,
    this did NOT send two e-mails, it worked properly as expected.

    I checked the source of the last test I did, both messages have more
    or less identical headers, except the message-ID is unique, which
    leads me to think they're being spooled twice by accident.

    To be sure, I cleared the queue (postsuper -d ALL to get rid of some
    older crap from a previous mailer) and restarted the postfix service
    between doing different tests, to ensure I hadn't just got some
    whacked out postmaster process. This didn't change anything.

    I don't know enough about Postfix to troubleshoot this further, and
    would obviously like to fix this issue ASAP, does anyone have any
    ideas/thoughts/comments/questions on this one?

    Thanks in advance,

    Phil.

    Phillip Barbier
    Web Programmer
    HOUSE&HOME MEDIA
    511 King Street West, Suite 120
    Toronto, ON, Canada M5V 2Z4
    tel: 416.593.9411 ext 215
    www.canadianhouseandhome.com


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