Try it out and let us know how it goes! Google mail runs beefy servers, so I imagine it would be a tiny blip on the radar before you fill up your X GB with junk.
If you want to make it really interesting, find a vulnerability in Google mail which allows you to create users from within an email. Then have those new users send emails to each other to create an ever increasing web of mail bombs. For Hofstadter points, have the emails create an overmind whose purpose it is to supplant humanity. Hilarity ensues! On Feb 16, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > > Just today I noticed that I can forward e-mails in gmail based on > filter rules. That made me wonder: is it possible to create a gmail > fork bomb? > > 1 - create a google mail account > 2 - create a filter which filters for e-mail from itself and forwards > it to itself > 3 - send a message from the gmail account to itself. > > Is this possible? I would like to believe the e-mail RFC somehow > handles this scenario. If not the RFC, google itself must have > thought > > For real excitement modify step two to forward two copies. Sure, > it's not a true fork bomb. But it has the same pattern as a fork- > bomb. > > P.S: I really shouldn't be reading GEB and doing gmail at the same > time, especially at this hour. ;) |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
