> I had a situation occur over the weekend (when I am less attentive to > my mail) which caused a mail filter loop and sent out 457 'fwd: fwd: > fwd: .... .... ' messages to a mailing list I manage. That is 457 X > 10,212 (or 4.66 _MILLION_ plus) messages before I caught the error. > I still don't know why it happened, as the logs don't tell me what the > 'trigger' was. This filter has been working properly for 14 months, > so I'm at a loss as to what happened. I'm thinking the mailing list > that sends out the daily bulletin involved has slightly changed their > format, just enough to foul up my filter, but I am still in the > process of investigating.
Sorry to here about your problem - the feeling is awful, I reckon! I manage 6 complete mailinglists with Digests (my own software) on a PII 233 - works like a breeze. The problem you were having is avoided on my lists easily since I add a small line in all outgoing messages: I set Field %ORG="Musaic.Net (Musaic.Net Relay Server featuring Anti- virus & Antispam filtering)". So I avoid loops by simply having a rule in front of my mailing list rules that grabs any returning message with a line "Musaic.Net (Musaic.Net Relay Serve [snip]" in Organization. / St ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
