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Subject: |
Re: HELP - bounced mail |
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From: |
"glenn (g.) henshaw" <thraxisp @
bnr .
ca> |
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Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:47:20 -0400 |
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To: |
ronp%msmail .
scopus .
com @
bnr .
ca, majordomo-users%greatcircle .
com @
bnr .
ca |
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X400-content-type: |
P2-1984 (2) |
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X400-mts-identifier: |
[/PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/;<v01520d02ac0c72d8862f@[47.2.1.1] |
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X400-originator: |
/dd.id=1306203/g=glenn/i=g/s=henshaw/@bnr.ca |
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X400-received: |
by mta bnr.ca in /PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/; Relayed; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:02:50 -0400 |
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X400-received: |
by /PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/; Relayed; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:47:25 -0400 |
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X400-received: |
by /PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/; Relayed; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:47:20 -0400 |
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X400-received: |
by /PRMD=bnr/ADMD=telecom.canada/C=ca/; Relayed; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:47:22 -0400 |
At 95/6/19, ronp%msmail.scopus.com@bnr400 wrote:
>Late Friday, someone subscribed to the list with a bad e-mail address. An
>"infinite loop" of e-mail messages were delivered to the list; a bounced
>mail
>from the bad address was resent to the list .. so on and so forth.
>
I found a similar situation with our mail gateways. In the case of a bad
address, the message was being bounced back to the MD command handler
("majordomo"). Since it was not a well formed message, it was bounced back
to the sys-admin with help appended. I added the following (BNR specific)
code to the majordomo PERL code to abort the processing of messages
apparently from our gateway.
diff follows:
*** 108,113 ****
--- 108,119 ----
if (&addr_match($reply_to, $whoami)) {
print STDERR "$whoami punting to avoid mail loop.\n";
exit 0;
+ }
+
+ # bounce mail from the BNR Postmaster
+ if ($reply_to =~ /.*[Pp]ostmaster.*@bnr.ca/) {
+ print STDERR "$whoami punting to avoid mail to administration.\n";
+ exit 99;
}
if (! &valid_addr($reply_to)) {
... Glenn
--
Glenn Henshaw | ATM-10 HW Development, BNR
Phone: ESN 393-3963, (613)763-3963| Fax: ESN 395-2469, (613)765-2469
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