Hi all,
I got into a mail loop with a bad vacation program, and would like to
avoid it in the future. This loop did not occur in any list, rather
it occured in the administration area. An email address was
subscribed to a list (the subscription was done by an administrator,
not the user). This generated a "welcome to the list message" that
was sent to the user. The user's vacation message replied to
majordomo (dumb, dumb!), which tried to parse its commands, failed,
and emailed the failure back to the user. The user's vacation program
replied, and this loop occurred 3240 times before I noticed and got it
to stop.
So, ignoring the fact that the vacation program of the user is very,
very dumb (I think), how should I have things configured to avoid this
problem in the first place? Majordomo 1.94.1, if that matters.
Mike
trick@cmu.edu
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