[CentOS] postfix pb with mass emails

[John Summerfied]

sophana wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt a écrit :
> 
>>Feizhou wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>I hope I got the message through that the problem is with phpbb and not 
>>>with postfix itself. phpbb must have injected multiple messages with the 
>>>same recipients.
>>>    
>>
>>Yes. I just wanted to state (again) that this is definitely not the
>>fault of postfix.
>>
>>Ralph
>>  
> 
> Thanks for all your responses.
> 
> Phpbb could of course be the problem. I was wondering how this kind of
> basic bug could still exist in postfix...
> 
> If it is a phpbb bug, is there an easy way to have a fake smtp server,
> so I can catch the bugged phpbb smtp request? (I can setup another smtp
> port in phpbb...)
>

Before you blame phpbb, check your data for duplicates.

Also, check that you have a recent version, there was a version a while 
ago that became very well known for a very bad reason - it was 
vulnerable to external attack, and external attackers were very successful.


How many computers can you use to try to debug your problem? I don't 
like to test on production systems, do you?





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