Susan, did you save any? could I see the headers please?
susan barnes wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Last night one of our majordomos got caught in a kind of mailloop, when
> someone tried to query majordomo using a sending address serviced by an
> autoresponder.
>
> Each Email hitting said account would trigger one of these
> We-will-answer-your-email-later messages, which caused majordomo to send
> its helpfile once again, which would trigger....
>
> 3000 Mails and 30 MB later I stopped the loop using the Mailservers
> AccessDB.
>
>
> We use Majordomo 1.94.5 and sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.8
>
>
> I am wondering if there is anything to avoid this situation?
>
> Things I thought about:
>
> Giving majordomos outgoing administrative mails a reply-to header
> pointing to majordomo-owner(I do not like that, for quite a few
> mailinglists are open+confirmed and half of the confirmation mails will
> then go to majordomo-owner)
>
> Incorporate another sanity-check, so mails with
> Return-Path: <>
> in their headers, do not get processed.
>
> It would be nice if majordomo could act similar to a (wellbehaved)
> vacation, sending out a Maximum of X messages to a single recipient and
> resetting the counter every hour or so.
>
> (All this should only affect the majordomo results mails, not the list
> traffic)
>
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
>
> Susan Barnes
>
>
> Susan Barnes <S.Barnes@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
> Zentrum fuer Angewandte Informatik - Universitaetsweiter Service RRZK
> Universitaet zu Koeln / Cologne University - Tel:0221-478-5594
>
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