"Greg Owen {gowen}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1) Is there a good way to shut down a mail loop? If you know that any
>mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] is looping, how to you stop
>delivery from that domain or to that address?
echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>/var/qmail/control/badmailfrom
> The loop came about because the mailing list manager (mailmman,
>www.list.org) sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which bounced. The
>bounce had an envelope sender of <> and a header sender of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail passed it along to mailman, which
>failed to recognize it was a bounce, and which then sent a response back to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] which bounced, and so the saga went.
That's a ping-pong, not a loop.
> 2) Is there any way to concoct a .qmail file that won't do final
>delivery of bounces (i.e., anything with envelope sender set to <>) so that
>I don't have to depend on the mailing list manager?
Sure, check the Return-Path header and deliver accordingly.
-Dave
