Re: [MiNT] administrativia

[Teemu Hukkanen <tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>]

Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de> writes:

> > > > P.S. Martin-Eric, do I have to remind you that you are not the
> > > > administrator of the mint-list?
> 
> While I have your attention:
> 
> Recently, I get many articles from the list doubly - it is definitely the
> same article (same Message-ID), the article is *not* Cc:'d to me.
> 
> The *only* difference between the headers of the two copies is this:

[...]

> So the two articles arrived at tornado.dascon.de (my mailhub, and the
> machine the MX points to) as two ESMTP sessions, with about two hours in
> between.
> 
> Any idea what is happening?

The mailserver at either end is dropping the connection before the
receiving end has acknowledged the successful transmit of the message,
either because of heavy packet loss or big delays, both temporary.

Let me know if you get double messages from the mint-list in the
future.