On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Orion Productions wrote:
> > Well, I didn't know, because this is an account that is created through WAI > by the postmaster of pcvowd.be. > > But ... you put me on the right track, thanks a lot!!!, because this is what > I see inside mailroot\domains\pcvowd.be\albert.degryse\mailproc.tab: > > "redirect" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Now, pcvowaasendurme.be is a custom domain that redirects to pcvowd.be (by > the way, what's the difference between this and the new feature of alias > domains? the effect is the same I thought (...@domain1 -> ...@domain2) ? So > which technique to prefer?) > > So this caused a loop... :-(( > > I'm sorry that the cause was a stupid loop, but thanks to the help of all > the people here in this newsgroup, I was able to trace it! > > Now, this leads us to an even bigger problem! This whole thing caused our > mailserver to run at full load for quite some time (several days in total), > caused downtime for our users, and caused us to lose A LOT of time > investigating the problem... And all this can be triggered by just one > mail... I strongly believe this should not be possible! XMail should have > a loop protection, so that it doesn't redeliver that same message over and > over again for eternity... > It's impossible for us to monitor each user action on maybe 200 domains (an > always growing number). There has to be only one stupid user, causing a > mail loop, and our whole server is down for hundreds of other customers. > And again and again, we would have to scan the spool directory manually to > trace the problem, fixing it, warning our customer not to do it again > (sounds rediculous, i know)... > > Do you understand what I mean? There should be some sort of protection, in > XMail or WAI, so that a user is shielded from its own mistakes. Simply put, > it should not be possible that a solid mail server can be doing the same > routine in an endless loop... this is as desgined ... i live in the middle of Intel land and they like when software suck lots of cpu power :-) i'll look into it this night ... actually i've 15 min free from the 1st and the 2nd half of Sweeden - Argentina :-) ). - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
