>From: Bob Wright <wrig1038@students.sou.edu>
>Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:14:48 -0700
>Are mail loops caused by vacation messages still a problem or is there
>now a solution I should know about?
>I've set "reply_to" to nothing (I hope that's OK)
Sure.
>and "sender" to owner-list so I think mail loops will be avoided except for
>one case:
Vacation loops are probably avoided because the list member's vacation program
is distinguishing between mailing lists and personal e-mail and not replying to
the former.
>if a user sets a vacation-reply rule to respond to "Sender and all
>recipients" instead of to "Sender only" then the list will get the
>message which means the user will get the message and generate another
>vacation message which will go to the list, etc.
In theory, the reply should only go to the ENVELOPE SENDER address like an
error message, not an address in a header.
>Is there any way this situation can be detected and intrrupted, either by
>Majordomo or by the mail client?
Here's something that helps and is easy to do:
Put a regular expression in taboo_body and taboo_headers that matches a unique
token the server adds, such as "owner-[listname]@host.domain". Vacation
programs tend to quote back messages.
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