> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: qmail auto reply looping
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >1> user A has enable auto reply and put some text
> >2> user B has also enabled auto reply and has put
> some auto reply text
> >3> now if user A will send any mail to user B then A will
> get an auto
> >reply from B ,again as user A has set his auto reply enabled
> >so A will sent auto reply to B ,this will go in to infinite loop
>
> Users A and B are using stupid and/or broken autoresponders. Good
> autoresponders don't blindly respond to everything. They limit the
> rate of responses to a single address, and they try not to reply to
> other autoresponders.
>
> -Dave
...and a couple of ways they do this is by:
1) Not sending auto-replies with a valid return address, and
2) Checking the Headers and Subject for indications of mailing lists and
mailbots.
-Dave 2
:)
