Have you tried running an up-to-date version, which icludes the
majordomo_dont_reply majordomo.cf variable?
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, richard welty wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:00:33 -0400
> From: richard welty <welty@balltown.cma.com>
> To: Fu Bar <fubar@dino.fdt.net>
> Cc: Majordomo Users mailing list <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>
> Subject: Re: Possible DOS attack
>
> *The other day I found the load average on one of our systems climbing
> and
> *noticed an apparent mail loop. It turned out, somone had sent an email
> *to majordomo at that system using majordomo as the from address.
> Because
> *the system in question has multiple possible hostnames, the simple
> check
>
> i've seen this before; it wasn't a DOS attack, but just a bug (albeit a
> nasty one.) i made a similar patch to majordomo to resolve the matter.
>
> richard
>
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