Don DeCosta schrieb:
> Found him in PREIN!  I didn't recognize him because he had grown to 10MB of
> looping headers but when I kept seeing a 10MB message pass through every two
> minutes, I thought I should take a look.
> 
> I didn't take time to analyze what was going on I just wanted to kill it
> while I had the chance!  I kinda wish now that I'd just moved him out of
> PREIN for a post mortem but he's gone now.  I Hope.

>> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent on [01/Apr/2005:14:33:45] to
>> 127.0.0.1
>> >>localhost.fabulous.com from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I am too seeing these messageloops. They are happening in either of two
scenarios here. Prerequiste however is, there is a message-sender with
an MX-entry 127.x.x.x for his sender-domain. When a message is accepted
by SMTPRCV, but can't be delivered this loop happens. Even when only
known recipients are accepted, this can occur: When a sender, not
allowed to do so, sends mail to an IMS-list or it's -request management-
address. The other possibility is a locally allowed forwading, which is
not accepted by any recipient further along.

For these cases it would be a nice addition to SMTPRCV, to have
the "too many received headers"-detection, which SMTPR had.

HTH
K
 W

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