Sorry for the mailing loop problem. It should now be fixed.
I have also deleted all pending messages the system was still
attempting to deliver.
If you notice any further serious problems, please contact
me +1 650 279 2500.
thanks,
gordon
Anyone interested in the cause of the problem feel read on...
My preference is to run on a platform that I have gotten
really reliable and secure, than constantly be upgrading to
the latest release. But finally, last night, after 3 years
of use, I decided it was time to upgrade the mailserver from
RedHat Linux 4.1 to 6.2. Or maybe I should really call it
CheapBytes Linux 6.2.
By default /etc/resolv.conf on RedHat Linux contains a line
like:
search base.com
which says, if it can't find a host with the requested name,
try appending "base.com" on to the name, and then try again.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, except that I have
sendmail configured to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sendmail configured this way, so
that every time I have to submit my email address to a
website, I can use a names such as [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and that way keep track of whether
anyone is selling my address.
The final piece of the puzzle is there is an address on the
mersenne list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
which for some time has probably been invalid, but not
previously causing any problem.
So, what was happening is a message was coming in for the
mersenne list, the system would start delivering it to
everyone, including [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
when it found this address was unresolvable, it would
append base.com on to it and try delivering the message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], which because
of how I have sendmail configured, would map back onto
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and the same message would keep getting
reinjected back into the system over and over again.
The fix is simply to change /etc/resolv.conf to:
search .
which is how I had been managing to avoid this problem in
RedHat 4.2.
gordoni,
list admin
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