Guy, the problem is this they point root to some address which doesn't exist. Since it returns to postmaster it then gets forwarded to root and so on and so on. Not very good. Now I know the solution is not to have root go somewhere where it doesn't exist but I don't have control over my customers making these forwards and it shouldn't affect the entire mail system.
Thank, Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Circular Aliases. > Neil, > > IMail has a built-in provision for detecting that a given message "has > already been here" and stop this particular problem. Not sure if it solves > the problem of circular aliases as you put it, though (I think not, based on > what you're saying). Then again, implementing a bullet-proof guard against > circularity would not be a trivial task, in my view. Imagine an address > being aliased to another address, itself aliased to another address [repeat > ad nauseam] with the final alias pointing the the first address... > > Guy > -- > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neil H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 7:30 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] Circular Aliases. > > > > Imail should be smart enough to not allow circular aliases. I don't know > > why it does allow them however they have become an increasing nightmare > for > > our organization... > > > > Neil > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
