[rt-users] Q: mailloops w/ rt-2.0.13

Bruce Campbell bruce_campbell at ripe.net
Tue Aug 6 04:32:10 EDT 2002


On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Phil Homewood wrote:

> Chris J. Mutter wrote:
> > we get a mail loops when some spam-idiots send mail of the form
> >
> > From: bla at sil.at
> > To:   bla at sil.at
> >
> > where bla at sil.at is a forward to the tracker into the queue ``bla''.
>
> The bounce-detection should take care of this. Can you ensure
> that the X-RT-Loop-Prevention header is present and correct in

Preservation of loop detection headers cannot always be counted upon,
although it makes loop detection _much_ easier.

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                             Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
                   Systems/Network Engineer                             NCC
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