>Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients: > > Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reason: SMTP transmission failure has occurred > Diagnostic code: smtp;554 forwarding loop, mail is looping > Remote system: dns;mx1.business.mindspring.com (TCP|[numbers removed])
I bet this is a side effect to Earthlink's mail loop checking. I'm sure they have run into problems where someone sets up their mail to forward back to the same account (I've done this accidentally on my own setup before). An example would be, they setup an away message, and then send themself an email from the same account that has the away message. Now the away message replies to the email, but the reply is going back to the account that has the away message, which just triggers another away message. You see this happen on mail lists from time to time. Earthlink avoids this by disallowing an address to send to itself, because it may be a loop. The server has no way of knowing that you redirected it instead of some automated system (like an away message). Probably the only way around this is to allow x number of loops before it trips the detection. But that is probably REALLY hard to setup properly, so they just disallow all loops. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
