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Topic: IRedAPD re-sending old messages several times

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- iRedMail version: iRedAdmin-Pro-LDAP-1.9.0
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Hello,

One of my users has sent a message a couple days ago and the receiver keeps getting the same message once per minute.

Investigating maillog, I've found the messages really being sent by our server every minute. For example (I'm omitting MX hosts, IPs and e-mail addresses):


Jul 25 12:26:06 mail postfix/smtpd[28961]: 3DF6E1ED56: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jul 25 12:26:06 mail postfix/qmgr[13060]: 3DF6E1ED56: from=<MYUSER@MAILADDR>, size=361539, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 25 12:26:06 mail amavis[440]: (00440-05) Passed CLEAN, MYUSERS LOCAL [A.B.C.D] [A.B.C.D] <MYUSER@MAILADDR> -> <DESTINATION@MAILADDR>, Message-ID: <040c01cfa81d$9b2b7c30$d1827490$@USERDOMAIN>, mail_id: E+AsQMBvWAhQ, Hits: -9.716, size: 360597, queued_as: 3DF6E1ED56, 4872 ms
Jul 25 12:26:07 mail postfix/smtp[30370]: 3DF6E1ED56: to=<DESTINATION@MAILADDR>, relay=DESTINATIONMX[A.B.C.D]:25, delay=1.1, delays=0.07/0.01/0.12/0.91, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 OK id=1XAhTj-0003zl-KO)
Jul 25 12:26:07 mail postfix/qmgr[13060]: 3DF6E1ED56: removed


The log above shows up every minute for the same sender and the same receiver.
Seeing these messages are sent from localhost (first line), I looked into iredapd.log and I've found these:


2014-07-25 12:28:58 INFO [A.B.C.D] MYUSER@MAILADDR -> DESTINATION@MAILADDR, DUNNO
2014-07-25 12:26:58 INFO [A.B.C.D] MYUSER@MAILADDR -> DESTINATION@MAILADDR, DUNNO
2014-07-25 12:25:57 INFO [A.B.C.D] MYUSER@MAILADDR -> DESTINATION@MAILADDR, DUNNO
2014-07-25 12:24:57 INFO [A.B.C.D] MYUSER@MAILADDR -> DESTINATION@MAILADDR, DUNNO
2014-07-25 12:23:57 INFO [A.B.C.D] MYUSER@MAILADDR -> DESTINATION@MAILADDR, DUNNO


After observing that, I noticed there are a few other cases just like it (about 4 or 5 messages are sent every minute). These messages are just replay from something sent days ago.

Question: why the server started this behavior? how to stop it?

Thanks

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Re: IRedAPD re-sending old messages several times

*) iRedAPD is just a Postfix policy service daemon, it doesn't cache or queue message.
*) You didn't paste full log in Postfix log file related to this email. Is there any application/daemon/cron job sending this email automatically?
*) Is it stalled in Postfix queue? You can check it with command 'postqueue -p'.