perlbug using duplicate message-id's

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#2054 (status was 'resolved')

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From cook@sightpath.com

This is actually about a bug in perlbug\, not in perl.

I recently used perlbug to file a bug report. I got an automated response that said "Your e-mail has been received by the Perl Bug Squashing Team"\, etc.

The email header of that automated response had a Message-ID field that was identical to that of my the email message that contained my bug report. (Consequently\, one of the two messages was suppressed by my mail user agent.)

Also\, the From field of the automated response said the message came from me (which it did not).

Perl Info

``` Site configuration information for perl 5.00503: Configured by root at Mon Aug 30 23:08:56 EDT 1999. Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2 09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Locally applied patches: @INC for perl 5.00503: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 . Environment for perl 5.00503: HOME=/u/cook LANG=en_US LANGUAGE (unset) LC_ALL=en_US LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset) LOGDIR (unset) PATH=/local/cook/sonoma/bin:/u/cook/bin:/u/cook/site/linux/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin PERL_BADLANG (unset) SHELL=/bin/bash ```

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Ronald J Kimball wrote​:

On Tue\, Mar 21\, 2000 at 03​:02​:50PM -0700\, Tom Christiansen wrote​:

I just ran perlbug -ok and this showed up in my logs​:

Mar 21 15​:00​:46 audit_mail[1271]​: New mail from Tom Christiansen \tchrist@​jhereg\.perl\.com Mar 21 15​:00​:46 audit_mail[1271]​: deposit into lists Mar 21 15​:00​:59 audit_mail[17477]​: New mail from Tom Christiansen \tchrist@​jhereg\.perl\.com Mar 21 15​:00​:59 audit_mail[17477]​: duplicate message id \200003212200\.PAA24595@​jhereg\.perl\.com discarded

The first is the confirmation ticket number. The second\, well\, I don't know. I suppose it might be the report. But I didn't get it\, because I drop duplicate message ids. Are we sending out two separate messages -- both the bug report *and* its confirmation -- under the same message id!?

Yes\, people have been complaining about this problem for some time. I hope something is being done to fix it.

http​://bugs.perl.org/pbdb.cgi?req=tidmids&tidmids=20000128.002

Ronald

Yup\, Mike Guy sent a couple of mails on this subject too\, I don't think I realised it was dropping the actual reports from getting through.

This may sound daft\, but I've been avoiding enabling the revised email side of things\, while everyone was/is in the middle of the latest release. OK\, I'll go do it now.

Ciao Richard Foley

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

In message \13062\.953676170@​chthon\,   Tom Christiansen writes​:

: The first is the confirmation ticket number. The second\, well\, I don't : know. I suppose it might be the report. But I didn't get it\, because : I drop duplicate message ids. Are we sending out two separate : messages -- both the bug report *and* its confirmation -- under : the same message id!?

Ohhhh.. maybe that's why I'm not seeing my own reports either.

Greg I see several for you in the db. Even if you are not getting the mail\, the 'mail is getting through!'

http​://bugs.perl.org/admin/pbdb.cgi?req=tid&tid=20000321.010

http​://bugs.perl.org/admin/pbdb.cgi?req=tid&tid=20000316.017

etc.

Ciao Richard Foley

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