Re: duplicate email from Apple/Eudora Internet servers

["Christoph Lameter" <clameter@waterf.org>]

Eudora is known to duplicate mail in some situations. We have had a problem
with the standard pop3 server on our Unix system with Eudora. We switched
to use cucipop instead of the standard pop3 server and the problem was
gone.

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> From: Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
> To: Roy C Bixler <rcb@press-gopher.uchicago.edu>
> Cc: zmailer@nic.funet.fi
> Subject: Re: duplicate email from Apple/Eudora Internet servers
> Date: Friday, May 23, 1997 1:33 PM
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am wondering if there is anyone else here who has gotten massive
> > duplicated email from a site running Apple Internet server or Eudora
> > Internet server.  The offending sites connect once every 15 to 30
minutes
> > and submit the same message as on previous connections.  Right now, I
am
> > getting around this problem by outfitting victim users with a simple
> > 'procmail' filter to quietly sink the duplicates.  But I am wondering
if
> > there is any other solution available besides this, complaining the
> > postmasters of the remote site and complaining to Eudora and Apple.
> 
> 	I have pondered this question, and can't figure out it being
> 	ZMailer's fault.  The RFC 1830 examples are buggy, and if the
> 	implementor isn't extremely carefull, they may make a mistake..
> 
> 	Still, the BDAT session looks just fine, so I have no idea
> 	what the trouble is at the sending side.
> 
> > Here is a sample SMTP conversation below:
> > 
> > 16312w   220 press-gopher.uchicago.edu ZMailer Server 2.99.48p2 #1
ESMTP+IDENT r
> > eady at Thu, 15 May 1997 14:32:45 -0500
> > 16312#   remote from [206.126.246.3]
> > 16312r   EHLO mail.ness.org
> > 16312w   250-press-gopher.uchicago.edu expected "EHLO woz.ness.org"
> > 16312w   250-SIZE 0
> > 16312w   250-8BITMIME
> > 16312w   250-PIPELINING
> > 16312w   250-CHUNKING
> > 16312w   250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> > 16312w   250-EXPN
> > 16312w   250-VRFY
> > 16312w   250-DSN
> > 16312w   250-X-RCPTLIMIT 10000
> > 16312w   250-ETRN
> > 16312w   250 HELP
> > 16312r   MAIL FROM:<usera@mail.ness.org> SIZE=2522
> > 16312w   250 2.1.0 Sender syntax Ok
> > 16312#   -- pipeline input exists 34 bytes
> > 16312r   RCPT TO:<userb@press.uchicago.edu>
> > 16312w   250 2.1.5 Ok; can accomodate 2522 byte message
> > 16312r   BDAT 2522 LAST
> > 16312w   250 2.6.0 S.nSqHV26582 Roger, stored 2704 bytes into spool
> > 
> > Any ideas will be much appreciated!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Roy Bixler
> > The University of Chicago Press postmaster
> > rcb@press-gopher.uchicago.edu
> 
> 	/Matti Aarnio
> 
>