I sent a spam report to abuse and postmaster at webexmailer.com last
night. This morning I received this failure message for both abuse and
postmaster:

Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, because the
message was forwarded more than the maximum allowed times. This could
indicate a mail loop.

Reporting-MTA: dns;gw1.webex.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
Arrival-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:03:02 -0700

Final-Recipient: rfc822;ab...@webexmailer.com
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.6

Looking at the headers of the returned message I see:

Received: from gw1.webex.com ([64.68.122.208]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 20:03:02 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw1.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:52:05 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28444052"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 19:52:05 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:42:04 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28443197"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 19:42:04 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:32:00 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22725559"
Received: from gw1.webex.com ([64.68.122.208]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 19:32:00 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw1.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:21:03 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22725033"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 19:21:03 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:11:01 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22724341"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 19:11:02 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:01:00 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22723679"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 19:01:01 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:50:59 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,338,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22723131"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:51:00 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:40:56 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28437390"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:40:56 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:40:56 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28437388"
Received: from gw1.webex.com ([64.68.122.208]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:40:56 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw1.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:30:55 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22720385"
Received: from gw1.webex.com ([64.68.122.208]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:30:55 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw1.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:20:20 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28435853"
Received: from gw1.webex.com ([64.68.122.208]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:20:21 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw1.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:20:20 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28435847"
Received: from gw2.webex.com ([64.68.122.209]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:20:21 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.84]) by gw2.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:20:19 -0700
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="22719802"
Received: from gw1.webex.com ([64.68.122.208]) by mx1.webex1.iphmx.com
with SMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:20:20 -0700
Received: from mx1.webex1.iphmx.com ([74.201.116.32]) by gw1.webex.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:20:19 -0700
X-ironport-anti-spam-filtered: true
X-ironport-anti-spam-result:
AtEBAOMde0rQL7gDkGdsb2JhbACWPYMLgQEBAQEBBwsMBxMDQqVkFwGQAIQYBYFMhAs
X-ironport-av: E=Sophos;i="4.43,337,1246863600";
d="scan'208";a="28435835"
Received: from mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com ([208.47.184.3]) by
mx1.webex1.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 06 Aug 2009 18:20:19 -0700

I assume the failure was due to the fact that it bounced around so many
servers at webex but I fail to see the reasoning for this other than the
fact that doing this causes failures of reports to their abuse and
postmaster addresses.

Any enlightenment would be appreciated
 

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