Please read the posting guidelines, which request that you do not top-post. > > > I have a squirrelmail installation that appears to be delivering > > > "ghost" > > > emails from the past to most of my users. I use the term ghost as we > > > cannot find where they are coming from, and are wondering if there is > > > a cache somewhere that we might be missing. > > > > > > Here are the strange parts of this, and what leads me to believe that > > > it is squirrelmail repeating these messages: > > > > > > 1) The messages come in with no 'sent' date header, only a received. > > > 2) The received header is blank. > > > 3) The messages come in at different times of the day, but always say > > > they were delivered at the same hour and minute each day. > > > 4) We CANNOT pull these emails using an IMAP or POP3 client to our > > > mail server. > > > 5) We CANNOT find a record of these emails in the IMAP or POP3 mail > > > queues. > > > 6) There is no record of these messages, other than in the SM > > > mailboxes that we provide our users. > > > > > > Is there a temp file or something that SquirrelMail may be holding > > > that would cause these messages to be repeated each day? I have many > > > customers who are experiencing this, and since we can't find a record > > > of these messages in their mail queues, it's hard to find where they > > > may be. If Squirrel is caching them somewhere, where might that be? > > > Can we clear a cache that SM is keeping? > > > > SquirrelMail is a mail client (MUA). It does not have anything to do > > with delivering mail on your system. You should investigate at the MTA > > level (postfix? sendmail? exim?...) > > We have done some investigating into the MTA, but the problem is, we > can't get the messages if we connect to the mail server with anything > other than Squirrelmail. We don't see these messages in the user's IMAP > or POP3 box, but if we log into their webmail, the message appears. SM is an IMAP client. That's all. Watch your mail log, that's the best place to start. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
