On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:26:09PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
> > user@mail2, via some forwarding script. Eventually, user@mail2 goes over
> > quota; the next message forwarded from user@mail1 gets bounced. Imagine
> > that user@mail1 is over quota too; than, the bounce will bounce AFTER SOME
> > TIME, WITH BRAND NEW MESSAGE. Not recognising that bounce as a bounce, mail2
> > will bounce that bounce again.
> >
> > And two servers will pingpong, generating huge amount of traffic (actually,
> > this amount is channel-bounded).
> That won't happen; user@mail1, if he forwards bounces (which he
> shouldn't) will forward the bounce to user@mail2. When that user is
> over quota, qmail generates a double bounce that goes directly to the
This DO happens. I can try to investigate; mail2 may use some different MTA
and be beyond my control; but this deadly pingpong happens for the second
time in two weeks :-(((
Alex.
