Hi,
> Its more than obvious i wont do such a thing. I have 100's of clients
> with virtual accounts.
>
> There r many dodo's who manage it using there qmailadmin interface. You
> get 1 such idiot out of every 500-600 domains and there it goes. 1 such
> account can cause havoc for the remaining domains. And if someone comes
> to know of this then he can crash the system any time he likes.
> My disk went full. Personal Experience
agreed..but it is still very unlikely that ur disk fills up cos thats not
how qmail works. if it does..then i think ur setup is broken..
check lifewithqmail.org ..
regards
dushyanth
>
> Divyank
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dushyanth Harinath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:43 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Forward causes mail to go into Infinite loop
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > I have a virtual domain called xyz.com and a pop account called
>> > sales . I have installed vpopmail + qmailadmin . In qmail admin I
>> > can login as the user sales and create a redirect for my pop
>> > account. This would create a .qmail file with the email address that
>> > I choose to forward all mails coming to this POP Account.
>> >
>> > The Problem arises when i choose my redirect as the same as my POP
>> > Mail Address. i.e. the contents of my
>> > /home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com/sales/.qmail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] , then
>> > all mail coming to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go in an infinite loop. This
>> > will keep adding to the disk space usage and make the disk
>> > completely full. this happened to one of my servers - a small text
>> > mail managed to cover up 16gb of HDD space all in
>> > /var/qmail/queue/mess dir in just one night.
>>
>> why do u want the mail to be forwarded to the same address.That
>> sounds weird
>> to me.Read the man page for dot-qmail.Whenever a mail is
>> forwarded it is re
>> injected into the queue.
>>
>> > How do i make sure that the email is cleaned up if it forwards to
>> > itself and not go into an infinite loop???
>> >
>> AFAIK, it is very unlikely that it will fill ur disk cos qmail bounces
>> the mail if it finds an infinite loop.
>>
>> regards
>> dushyanth
>>
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>> Archean Infotech Limited
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