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Alas! Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:58:01AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> It's a crude, but effective, loop detection mechanism (mentioned in
> RFC 821 as well).  When the MTA sees what it thinks is an excessive
> number of Received: headers it figures a mail loop has occured and
> bounces the message instead.

Wouldn't it be more effective to check the Received headers to see if
it's gone through the same server twice, and /then/ bounce the mail?
It's not a mail loop if it just has a lot of servers to go through.

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Rob 'Feztaa' Park
http://members.shaw.ca/feztaa/
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