What sendmail version?
Is this with sendmail running on the same box as Listserv?
How is Listserv handling the delivery?
Single-threaded delivery or SMTP helpers?
Are you using BSMTP?
-Chris
Nick Abiola-Bisiolu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am wondering if anyone is having similar experince with Listserv where
> messages send to a very large list get resend a second time to some of
> the recipientsc by sendmail due to unknown email addresses retuned by
> the server local alias table.
> We have configured our Listserv server in Unix environment and all our
> staff aliases are resolvable by the Listserv server.
> According to Lsoft technical support, we have to modify some setting in
> sendmail timeout to fix the issue, but they have not benn specific about
> the changes.
>
> During email distribution from Listserv, we noted that some of the
> recipients addreses that are bad are reported back instantly to Listserv
> by the server alias deamon as shown below.
>
> 9 May 2007 15:01:27 Processed 700 recipients...
> 9 May 2007 15:01:28 Processed 800 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:28 Processed 900 recipients...
> 9 May 2007 15:01:28 Processed 1000 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:28 Processed 1100 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:28 Processed 1200 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:28 Processed 1300 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:29 Processed 1400 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:29 Processed 1500 recipients...
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> -> RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]>
> 550 5.1.1 <[log in to unmask]>... User unknown
> 9 May 2007 15:01:30 Processed 1600 recipients...
> 9 May 2007 15:01:30 Processed 1700 recipients...
>
> In Sendmail log the same message was generated twice to the same list
> with differennt message ID and each list of recipients are identical
> starting with the bad addreses.
>
> Please respond with any helpful information.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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Christopher Wilson
Information Systems Coordinator
ISS Technology Operations and Engineering
The George Washington University
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