What's this?

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:39:33AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> Below are five messages which appeared in my inbox this evening. 
> They consist of only a few header lines each. Nothing else. Any 
> guesses what they are?

Well, 2 of them are from a mailing list on sonic and 3 are from a mailing
list on NBLUG...

The 3 common elements are that they're all from mailing lists, they're all
in roughly the same time range and they're all to you.

(sonic's server answers as sendmail; nblug.org and softhome.net appear to be
qmail)

I'd guess that one of two possibilities occurred: (1) softhome.net removed
the contents of /var/qmail/queue/mess but left the rest intact (just enough
to get the message to you; not enough to get you the contents) or (2)
softhome.net had to restore /var/qmail/queue from backup and didn't do it
right (qmail is, unfortunately, *VERY* finicky about the queue being backed
up; inode #s need to be preserved, which basically means you can't back it
up meaningfully).  It's also possible that something else weird went on...

> > Return-Path: <talk-return-1691-argonaut=softhome.net at nblug.org>
> > Delivered-To: argonaut at softhome.net
> > Received: (qmail 15837 invoked by uid 417); 17 Oct 2002 02:29:25 -0000
> > Received: from softdnserr (HELO mail.nblug.org) (208.201.242.2)
> >   by 192.168.0.30 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 02:29:25 -0000

Oct 16 18:28:07 enigma qmail: 1034818087.658539 new msg 48271
Oct 16 18:28:07 enigma qmail: 1034818087.658787 info msg 48271: bytes 2074 from <talk-return-1691- at nblug.org-@[]> qp 870 uid 70
Oct 16 18:28:09 enigma qmail: 1034818089.664219 starting delivery 43491: msg 48271 to remote argonaut at softhome.net
Oct 16 18:28:20 enigma qmail: 1034818100.251621 delivery 43491: success: 66.54.152.4_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_1034821765_qp_15837/
Oct 16 18:34:52 enigma qmail: 1034818492.167267 end msg 48271

(1034821765 = 17 Oct 2002 02:29:25 -0000)

In other words, nblug.org's server thinks that it delivered this message to
the server you're using with no problems, and your server seemed to agree.
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