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Subject: Re: Patch for infinite loop of messages
From: carl @ chage . com (Carl Hage)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 18:08:25 PDT
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM

>From tibbs@hpc.uh.edu  Thu Oct 17 17:53:52 1996

>Huh?  Nothing should ever use Errors-To:.  It was born dead.  MTAs and
>autoresponders should be sending bounces to the envelope sender (though
>many do not).

The "defective" mailers are using the Reply-To: for bounces.

>With 1.94, individual list owners can alter the taboo_headers config
>variable.  No patches to the Majordomo source are required, and you don't
>need the intervention of the Majordomo administrator.

The Majordomo administrator should maintain an up-to-date best effort
filter of offending bounce/vacation programs for all lists rather than


>CH> For majordomo-1.94a3 users, the corresponding patch is:
>
>Alpha3 is beyond ancient. 

Well, that's what I got when I downloaded this morning from greatcircle.com.
Apparenlty, the WWW page I got  that from must be out of date/bad. I
don't remember where I got it, perhaps the FAQ referenced on yahoo?
The FAQ should have pointed to a URL which is the lastest, or a directory
with a selection of releases.

Were there more taboo_headers added since 1.94a3?

>And even these added regular expressions don't
>catch them all.  Heck, I get them in German, Finnish, Norwegian, you name
>it.

The more that are added, the fewer loops that will occur.
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