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Subject: Re: Fw: BOUNCE and Zombie Processes
From: Bill Houle <Bill . Houle @ SanDiegoCA . NCR . COM>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:52:44 -0800
To: "Siamak Farah" <sia @ infostreet . com>, <list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM>, <majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <01af01bd37eb$2daf0910$1269f0cf@babylon.instantweb.com>

It sounds like either the moderator (in list.config) or -request (in
aliases) is pointing back to the list.

--bill


At 11:19 AM 2/12/98 -0800, Siamak Farah wrote:
>
>
>>This is an old question I have asked a zillion people, but have never
>>received a working answer. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug.
>>
>>I have a closed list. Only list members can post to it. Whenever someone
>>posts that is not authorized to do so, it generates a BOUNCE message.
>>However, instead of sending the bounce to the sender, it sends it back to
>>the list. Since the list itself is not authorize to send to itself, it
>>BOUNCES again. So on and so forth, till the email gets to be greater than
>>40k. Then a new series of messages. Result: Machine crawls and we get
>zombie
>>processes.
>>
>>This must be so simple, how can I get the bounce message to go to the
>>sender, not to the list?
>>
>>Please help a very frustrated sole.
>>
>>Siamak Farah
>>sia@infostreet.com
> 



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