Frank,
I'm glad you got it solved. I, for one apologize because I came off a
little upset at you but once I saw the logs it was obvious then, so my
original diagnosis was wrong.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Tanner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] BIG Problem/Dissatisfied Customer
> In this case, it was an e-mail address of a mail administrator that was
many
> moons long gone and the account was deleted, but the administration info
> wasn't updated, so it kept trying to send to his acct, which was forwarded
> to another which was looped back to the mail list....Ad infinitum.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Lapides
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] BIG Problem/Dissatisfied Customer
>
>
> You're very welcome. Sometimes the most frustrating problems do not
require
> a lot of technical expertise to solve. IMail was doing it's job correctly,
> but choking on the mail loop. Everyone was so fixated on DNS and server
> configuration issues that the "obvious" answer eluded them. At first I was
a
> little afraid to make the sugestion, because I too was convince that there
> was some deep voodoo going on with your server. I'm just glad the solution
> was easy to fix, even if it was a bear to track down.
>
> I'm still a little apprehensive about the mailing list functionality of
> IMail. Are the any other horror stories to be aware of?
>
> I'd be interested if the address used for submissions to the list was
> actually subscribed to the list, or if it was a mal-formed address that
was
> resubmitted to the list because some sort of administrative user who got a
> copy (ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) was auto-forwarding all it's mail to the list
> submission account.
>
> I would think that the list function was smart enough to recognize that it
> should not send mail to itself. But then again, who knows?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Tanner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:15 PM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] BIG Problem/Dissatisfied Customer
>
>
> > Well....It looks like the mail list loop suggestion was it.
> >
> > Seems to be chugging along at a good, healthy 5% usage now.
> >
> > Thanks alot.
> >
>
>
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