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Subject: Re: endless loop
From: "Michael J. Corrigan" <corrigan @ ucsd . edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 07:56:43 -0800
To: **ANDi RiGBY*** <rigby%ws2309 @ sol1 . gud . siemens . co . at>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:58:05 +0200." <9503290758.AA22513@ws2309>
Reply-to: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM

If you put 
set SMARTMAILER
in your .mailrc then mailx will obey Reply-To:, under HP-UX

> Hi MJers,
> 	anybody else had this problem? I changed the "sender" field
> in my <list>.config file to the list name - why - because in the
> mailx program from HP-UX when wishing to reply to a post the "Reply-to" 
> field is ignored and only the Sender field is used. 
> However this started an endless loop which I didn't immediately find 
> and almost brought down my system :-(    
> My list allows only members to post, somebody else posted and
> it got bounced for approval, and it was bounced to .... "Sender" which 
> meant that the list got it again which meant it was bounced again to 
> "Sender" ...  which meant .........
> 
>      Anyway around this?
> 
>      I'm using perl5.0, mj 1.93 on a HP-UX 9000.
> 
>      Cheers,
>      andE
> 


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