Hey, thanks for the info Francesco! Ben
Francesco Vertova wrote: >At 09.11 27/04/04 -0500, you wrote: > > >>Just for clarity, how would this happen? I thought a mailloop would >>only effect that mailserver??? Confused... >> >> > >XMail defines a mail loop as a message with more than (by default 16) >Received: headers. It counts these headers and does not try to detect if a >message is really going back and forth. The (good) assumption is that, if >there are too many Received: then something is wrong somewhere, whether a >loop or not (and a loop will always generate too many Received: sooner or >later ...). > >Now, suppose Ecartis adds, say, 9 Received: headers. If a message is >re-injected, it gets another 9 Received: headers prepended to it, so that >XMail sees too many Received: and declares a mail loop. The actual number >of Received: headers may vary, so a re-injected msg may get through on a >system and be declared a mail loop on another. Anyway, the 'loop' is the >sheer number of Received: which in this case depends on re-injection rather >than a 'loop' proper. But the above assumption is still good :-) > >Ciao, Francesco > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
