MY APPOLOGIES TO ALL CYPHERPUNKS - WAS Re: Returned mail:

Ralph Wallis mischief at optushome.com.au
Tue Dec 18 14:44:06 PST 2001


procmail samples add 'X-Loop' or a similar header
so that you don't respond to a double bounce. Choate's
sample CDR recipe does something similar. You should
add something like that.

There is also some incompatibility between the nodes
that causes some bounces to go out to the lists.

On Tuesday, 18 Dec 2001 at 11:11, !Dr. Joe Baptista <baptista at pccf.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Eric Murray wrote:
> > Either way, you shouldnt set up an autobounce that can reply to a list.
> > Please fix it so it won't do that.
> 
> had a look at it - the autoresponder was sending to the list owner at
> minder - not the actual list.
> 
> normally it's a very well behaved autoresponder and only responds once to
> a new email address - ignores lists.  But It was sending the list owner a
> new reponse each time the spam was recived.





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