That was a funny/interesting/detailed explaination, hearing it in my mildly drunken state as my girlfriend throws the cat toy at my head.
Peace out > Swerve > From: "Jeff Breitner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:53:56 -0400 > To: "'Swerve'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'discuss-list'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Mail Loop > > 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 >>> >> >> >
