Hmmm. that's quite an interesting predicament. Normally if a message
enters a loop like that, you get many received headers created, and mail
servers (including james) will kill the message after a suitably large
number.
In this case, I guess it's NotifySender that's creating the problem. This
is kind of hard to catch, as while it'd be easy to check if the sender and
recipient are the same, it might not be that easy if there is address
forwarding or something else.
Really want we should do is have those notify mailets now send the message
with the 'null' sender (MAIL FROM: <>). This is to create a message that
does not bounce. The code in CVS now supports the null sender, but I don't
think the mailets have been changed to do this (although they will not
notify sender if the sender is null).
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies
http://www.lokitech.com/
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From: "Jacques Lema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Invalid user writing to himself
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> I have a page on my site (http://maplante.meet-u.com/) that allows (in
> order to offer a virtual plant) sending email to another person.
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> Apparently if both the TO and the FROM user name are invalid
> for example: sending from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] "
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> The mail enter an infinite loop... as it is refused and sent to bob.. who
> doesnt exist, who doesnt exist and sends it to bob... and so on?
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> How should I filter this? (Using James 1.2.1)
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