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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#17000: A mail of got sent (unwanted) 679 times!!!
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2000-12-13 17:41:48
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On Wednesday, 13. December 2000 10:51, Andreas Hochsteger wrote:
>
> Although I closed the send window and the message window and kmail it
> continued to send mails. I only noticed later with ps that there were still
> kmail processes running and delivering my mail. I had to call the receipt

I can't believe, that there were KMail processes running. May be ONE process 
was running, but not several.

> of the mail to warn him and to explain him what's goin on here! I think
> kmail has been hanging in a loop.
> Perhaps it's a problem on my side, but I've always used pine without
> trouble and this was the first time I used kmail for sending mails.

Are you sure, that also the person in to To: field recieved the mail that 
often or only you?

> +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>         by highstick.chello212186106081.14.tuwien.teleweb.at
> (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA03748
>         for <andreas@localhost>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:41:28 +0100
> Received: from stud4.tuwien.ac.at
>         by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.3.0)
>         for andreas@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:41:28

This looks like you have created somehow a mailloop with fetchmail.

Did that happen only once or does it happen always, you send a mail with 
KMail that you Cc: to yourself?

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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