Yours truly had a bad Exim filtering rule, coupled with the use of Spamassassin, that caused my mailing list mail to be returned in its entirety to the To: field within the envelope.
Ergo, my return came to the Majordomo software as a post and probably went right back out, or caused an error condition and *that* was sent to the poster of the message. The loop is in the fact that my formerly defective mail software was returning the messages to the list software, closing the circle and making a round-trip for the message. Hence, the loop. To make matters worse, my upstream provider has again lost their marbles in half their nameservers. For whatever reason, lunar cycles, a day ending in "Y", failure to say "pretty-please with sugar on top", they have half-working nameservers. Half-working in as much as they no longer slave to my nameservers for reverse name lookups. That means that people who accept mail only from domains that have a reverse are no longer accepting my mail tonight. Maybe in light of the mail loop that isn't such a bad thing. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-discuss-list@;opensrs.org] On Behalf Of Swerve > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:01 PM > To: Derek J. Balling; discuss-list > Subject: Re: Mail Loop > > > Hi Derek, > > What do you mean by looping? > > Swerve > > > From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:58:01 -0400 > > To: discuss-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Mail Loop > > > > Gentlemen, someone is looping list posts back to the list: > > > >> Received: from www.opensrs.org (www.opensrs.org [216.40.33.61]) by > >> narn.megacity.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6) with ESMTP id > >> g9N1VPuJ005236 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:31:25 > >> -0400 > >> Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by www.opensrs.org > (8.9.3/8.9.3) > >> id VAA07954 for discuss-list-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:14:57 > >> -0400 > >> Received: from secure4.developerschoice.net ([209.69.207.2]) by > >> www.opensrs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07951 for > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:14:56 -0400 > >> Received: from virtuser by secure4.developerschoice.net with local > >> (Exim 3.34 #4) id 184A6p-0003Rp-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:14:55 -0400 > >> Received: from www.opensrs.org ([216.40.33.61]) by > >> secure4.developerschoice.net with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #4) id > >> 184A6p-0003Rf-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 > >> 21:14:55 -0400 > >> Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by www.opensrs.org > (8.9.3/8.9.3) > >> id UAA31471 for discuss-list-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 > 20:44:19 -0400 > >> Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13.bellnexxia.net > >> [209.226.175.34]) by www.opensrs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id > >> UAA31468 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:44:19 > >> -0400 > >> Received: from [65.95.67.24] by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net > (InterMail > >> vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id > >> <20021023004418.JSNC1512.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@[65.95.67.24]>; > >> Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:44:18 -0400 > > > >
