something like
if ((()=$Header =~ /^(Rec)/m) > 100){ # ()= to create temp array to count
....
On 5/19/05, Keith Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Peacock wrote:
> > Keith Ivey wrote:
>
> >> I don't think there is any "Delivered-To" header yet, because the
> >> message never gets delivered -- it's just repeatedly relayed (from the
> >> server to itself). The hostname in the address is not in rcpthosts or
> >> locals, so there's no delivery.
> >
> > Almost exactly right: the hostname in the address can be in both
> > rcpthosts and locals (of one of the boxes involved) and still loop.
>
> Your incident was different from mine. In my case, a message was being
> sent through my server from a local address to a remote address, but the
> remote address ended up being not so remote because of a
> misconfiguration of the MX record for its domain, which was resolving to
> 0.0.0.0. My server was thus repeatedly delivering the message to
> itself. Because my loop involved only one server, it wouldn't continue
> until the heat death of the universe, but only for a week, or until the
> added headers made the message exceed the maximum message size my
> qpsmtpd would accept.
>
> In any case, a simple "Received" header count would have been enough to
> stop your loop or mine.
>
> --
> Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Washington, DC
>
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