I don't normally reply to private email regarding majordomo, but
since I may not have this address much longer anyway, I will make
an exception.
The key is to find a unique identifier in the messages causing or
involved in the loop, and filter it. The O'Reilly book, Mastering
Regular Expressions is a great help for this.
I also make use of the listname.config file to add a header field
to each message sent out, then turn around and filter on this
header. Example:
message_headers << END
X-Mailing-List: listname
END
taboo_headers << END
/X-Mailing-List: listname/
END
Dan Liston
Phil Bangayan wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> I'm reading a message you posted to majordomo-users
> back on July 17, 2001. In it you say:
>
> > I use a couple tricks to prevent loops, but specifically to
> > prevent auto-reply loops, I do this in the majordomo.cf file;
>
> I'm curious what you put in the taboo body or taboo header
> to prevent mail loops. My list (gobruins -- a UCLA sports
> mailing list) got hit by a mail loop today. From reading
> the headers, I'm not exactly sure what caused it, but
> my _guess_ is the offending subscriber had the list in
> his .forward file.
>
> Anyway, if you have any suggestions, I'd certainly
> appreciate them.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Phil
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