It's been that way since email existed. Mail loops used to cause complete havoc with the internet and mail servers. Especially local loops. People used to just kill their email servers to stop it. And out-of-office replies caused havoc with email lists when they first came out. Mail loop detection was added to many systems around 5 years ago or so to stop the problem. Unless somebody has a brilliant idea to fix email world-wide we have to suffer a bit. All it takes is this: us...@somwhere -> maill...@somewhereelse -> us...@somewhereelse (has a .forward to maill...@somewhereelse ). And voila! A mail loop. People who don't have considerable long-term email server experience are gleefully unaware of the history behind this. I was a network admin back in the 80's and saw this problem lots of times. Michael D. Black Senior Scientist Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
________________________________ From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org on behalf of P Kishor Sent: Mon 6/14/2010 8:12 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] Mail loop? On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Black, Michael (IS) <michael.bla...@ngc.com> wrote: > The problem is that somebody has a .forward or such which loops back to the > list. It's probably in the alias expansion of sqlite-users which expands to > a list....for which a member then expands back to sqlite-users. > > The mail logs may show whether it happens locally or if its a remote user. > If it's a remote user you should see a log entry complaining about too many > loops and it may ID the user name involved. > Happened to me a few days ago. It would be a very bad design on the part of the mail list manager software if one errant user could cause bad behavior to percolate to everyone on the list. > > I'd check sqlite-users for another sqlite-users@ entry... > > Michael D. Black > Senior Scientist > Northrop Grumman Mission Systems > > > ________________________________ > > From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org on behalf of Richard Hipp > Sent: Mon 6/14/2010 7:46 AM > To: General Discussion of SQLite Database > Subject: Re: [sqlite] Mail loop? > > > > It is not just you. But I have no idea what the problem is or how to fix > it. > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Black, Michael (IS) <michael.bla...@ngc.com >> wrote: > >> I've been seing this the last 2-3 weeks whenever I email the list...is it >> just me??? >> >> >> This is the mail system at host sqlite.org. >> >> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not >> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. >> >> For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. >> >> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can >> delete your own text from the attached returned message. >> >> The mail system >> >> <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>: mail forwarding loop for >> sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> >> >> >> Michael D. Black >> Senior Scientist >> Northrop Grumman Mission Systems >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sqlite-users mailing list >> sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> >> > > > -- > --------------------- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org <http://www.punkish.org/> Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org <http://carbonmodel.org/> Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org <http://www.osgeo.org/> Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu <http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
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