-----Original Message----- From: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com [<A HREF="mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On">mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On</A> Behalf Of Hubert Mantel Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 7:17 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Mail Loop
Hi,
the following has happened:
Mail to Jean-Michel_Dossogne@f7111.surf.be could not be delivered due to an error on their site. Their mailsystem is misconfigured and ignores the Return-Path which is to be used for error notifications. So the bounced mail did not go to the list maintainer, but to the list itself. And therefore it got sent to Jean-Michel_Dossogne@f7111.surf.be again and so on. A classic mail loop which happens on many mailing lists from time to time.
There's nothing the list maintainers can do other than unsubscribing the person as soon as they become aware of the problem. After unsubscribing, there are still mails in the queue, so it will take some time until the trouble stops.
Would refusing non-subscriber submissions curb this at all? Yeah, I know this isn't you guys' fault--but nonetheless, it's gotten rather ridiculous. I seem still to be receiving the backed-up notifications even now. Prismatic Booger Braden N. McDaniel, braden@shadow.net <<A HREF="http://www.shadow.net/0.000000E+00braden/"><A HREF="http://www.shadow.net/0.000000E+00braden/</A">http://www.shadow.net/0.000000E+00braden/</A</A>>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e