On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Henrik Steffen wrote:

>
> hello,
>
> s0enke and i just detected a mailloop on our server.
>
> we had accidently setup two users redirecting mails to eachother
> using mailproc.tab
>
> this lead to adding 30.000 X-Deliver-To Headers in the mail and
> a 99%-system usage.
>
> of course, I know that one shouldn't redirect to another account and vice versa,
> but now that it happened to us, it could happen to other users. shouldn't xmail
> detect a mail-loop. as far as i know it allready does handle mail loops with remote
> servers, but seems like it doesn't work for local mail processing.
>
> would you look into this?

I've never asked to procmail guys why if i put this inside my .procmailrc :

:0 H:
/dev/null

i'm somehow unable to read my messages :-)




- Davide


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