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Subject: Return Loops
From: Evan Champion <evanc @ synapse . net>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 09:22:28 -0500 (EST)
To: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com

I'm having a problem with majordomo replying to things like vacation 
programs, bounce messages, etc.

What happens is that someone sends in a subscription message, and 
majordomo mails something back to them.  If the return address was not 
valid or the user has a vacation program, a message gets returned to 
majordomo.

majordomo tries to process that message, finds that it has no valid 
commands, and returns the message, which then generates another message 
back to majordomo.

My record so far is an over 43000 message loop over a 3 day period.

What I would like to have setup are majordomo-specific filters (not the 
list-specific ones like global_taboo_headers) -- things that majordomo 
itself should never reply to, or addresses that should never be allowed 
to subscribe, etc.

Evan
--
Evan Champion            * Director, Network Operations
mailto:evanc@synapse.net * Directeur, Exploitation du reseau
http://www.synapse.net/  * Synapse Internet



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