duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Edward J. Sabol]

I think there's something amiss with the emacs.ding news->mail gateway. I've
been noticing this for a while, but I finally figured it out today. Whenever
someone posts to emacs.ding, I end up receiving two copies of the same
message via the mailing list. Anyone else seeing this? Can anyone fix it?
It's kind of annoying unless you have Gnus or procmail filtering out
duplicated Message-IDs.

Later,
Ed

Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Per Abrahamsen]

Are you sure it isn't caused by people writing 

	Newsgroups: emacs.ding
	To: ding@ifi.uio.no

?

These will become duplicates.  I have posted this to `emacs.ding' with
no `To' header.  Do you get it twice?

Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Per Abrahamsen]

Looks like the messages do get duplicated.  I'll inform the sunsite
admin. 

Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Edward J. Sabol]

Excerpts from [emacs.ding]: (22-May-97) Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway... by Per Abrahamsen
> Are you sure it isn't caused by people writing
>
> 	Newsgroups: emacs.ding
>       To: ding@ifi.uio.no
>
> ?
>
> These will become duplicates.

That's what I thought, too, but I believe the emacs.ding news->mail gateway
is putting in the `To:' header and not the people doing the posting. I
confirmed that via a private e-mail with someone who posted a message in that
manner just today. And now you've doubly confirmed it.

> I have posted this to `emacs.ding' with no `To' header. Do you get it
> twice?

Yes, I did. By the way, I am in no way subscribed to emacs.ding. I only
get messages via the mailing list.

Also, I've noticed that emacs.ding is gatewayed to ding@ifi.uio.no instead of
the new ding@gnus.org. Someone should fix that too, since I presume
eventually ding@ifi.uio.no is going to disappear.

Anyone know who to contact?

Later,
Ed

Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Karsten Thygesen]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward J Sabol <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> I have posted this to `emacs.ding' with no `To' header. Do you get
>> it twice?

Edward> Yes, I did. By the way, I am in no way subscribed to
Edward> emacs.ding. I only get messages via the mailing list.

You are right! Our newsserver is double-posting all moderated
postings, which is a bug in Dnews. I will look into this ASAP!

Edward> Also, I've noticed that emacs.ding is gatewayed to
Edward> ding@ifi.uio.no instead of the new ding@gnus.org. Someone
Edward> should fix that too, since I presume eventually
Edward> ding@ifi.uio.no is going to disappear.

Edward> Anyone know who to contact?

I guess that will be me :-) It's fixed now!

Karsten

-- 
M.Sc.E.E, Sys/Net-administrator, BOFH, Aalborg University, Denmark
http://www.kom.auc.dk/~karthy/ for more information.
SunSITE Denmark Manager (http://sunsite.auc.dk/)

Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Roderick Schertler]

On 23 May 1997 17:12:04 +0200, Karsten Thygesen <karthy@kom.auc.dk> said:
> 
> Our newsserver is double-posting all moderated postings, which is a
> bug in Dnews.

I had a problem like this with inn.  It was adding the moderator address
to the article and then invoking `sendmail -t' on it.  sendmail would
then send it both to the moderator and also to whomever was listed in the
existing To: and Cc: headers.  The To: and Cc: addresses would get two
copies because the posting agent had already sent them one.  Solution:
Don't use `sendmail -t' to send articles to the moderation address, pass
the header recipient on the command line.

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org

Re: duplicated messages from emacs.ding news->mail gateway...

[Karsten Thygesen]

>>>>> "Roderick" == Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> writes:

>> Our newsserver is double-posting all moderated postings, which is a
>> bug in Dnews.

Roderick> I had a problem like this with inn.  It was adding the
Roderick> moderator address to the article and then invoking `sendmail
Roderick> -t' on it.  sendmail would then send it both to the
Roderick> moderator and also to whomever was listed in the existing
Roderick> To: and Cc: headers.  The To: and Cc: addresses would get
Roderick> two copies because the posting agent had already sent them
Roderick> one.  Solution: Don't use `sendmail -t' to send articles to
Roderick> the moderation address, pass the header recipient on the
Roderick> command line.

You are right! The default for dnews is to invoke sendmail with
"-t". It is now changed, and as far as I can test, it did solve the
problem. Thanks and sorry again for the annoyance you have all had
with this!

Best,
Karsten

SunSITE Denmark Manager and a happy GNUS user (by second look, I'm
actually wearing my September GNUS T-Shirt :-)