Is the offensive auto responder on your server? Were they using info-manager instead of vacation manager?
John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835 www.reliancesoft.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Freed > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Reply-to List infinite loop > > We recently had a problem with a class e-mail list. The list was set to > "reply-to-list", which, when coupled with an overzealous Out-of-Office > Auto-Responder, filled the mailboxes of all the list members. Once we > removed her from the list, the problem stopped. Its the first time in the 1 > and a half years this has happened, but we'd like to prevent it from > happening again. We'd rather not change the "reply-to-list" feature, as > most instructors prefer it that way. > > Is there any filter or rule set that would prevent an errant auto-responder > from causing this problem again? (the problem was 11,005 returned e-mails > over night) We're using IMail 6.0. > > > Thanks in advance, > Andy > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Andy Freed > SWS & iMail Support > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 977-8225 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
