Re: mail moderation

[Philip S Tellis]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:

> "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" wrote:
> 
> > subscribes some second ML to our ML, the automatic confirmations themselves
> > will start off a never-ending cycle, which can be stopped only by bringing
> > down one of the two MLs!
> 
> MTA's with brains are capable of detecting mail loops. qmail is one.

Technically, this wouldn't be a mail loop, cause the autoresponders would
enclose the original mails in wrappers and clean up the original headers,
inserting their own.  It would be hard to identify loops.

Philip


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