[plug] Seeing strange duplicate messages

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Wed Jun 9 21:55:15 WST 2004


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:19:25PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Lately I've been receiving strange "duplicate" messages from various
> Debian mailing lists.  They contain two copies of a previously
> received message, with one contained in an "X-Mailbox-Line" header.
> (That's a pretty bad description so I've attached one of the
> messages.  It's not too big so hopefully people won't mind.)

I'm not currently subscribed so I can't tell you but I do recall it
being spotted last year sometime on -devel. In
<20030628103428.GA25450 at prvidomaci.srce.hr> from Josip Rodin:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:54:30AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > And their headers seem quite garbled: they include part of other
> > messages...
> 
> That's one of the bugs that surfaced recently due to the resource
> problems on the list server. The problem has now been tracked down
> but not fully fixed -- working on it. I'll post something to
> -devel-announce when all is well again.

Curious failure mode though :)

Bernard.

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