At 11:31 AM 3/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I came in this morning to find majordomo (1.93) endlessly mailing itself.
>Because of the design of the program, no harm was done except for mileage on
>the hard drive head mechanism and excessive use of resources while the loop
>was happening. The situation occurs if a Reply-to header in a majordomo
>request is set to the address of the target majordomo itself. This is
>something of a mail-bomb, or rather a mail-firecracker since anyone on the
>Internet can apparently do it to any system running majordomo.
>
>Is there a fix for this other than setting up a mail filter for majordomo to
>deep six mail from itself?
I'm pretty sure this is fixed in majordomo 1.94.1.
Bryan
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Bryan Fullerton
Samurai Consulting
bryanf@samurai.com
http://www.samurai.com
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