Which versions of software are you running?
My qmail-1.03/vpopmail-4.10.32/qmailadmin-0.76ac3 composition detected the
loop, and bonced it based on the Delivered-To: information.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Divyank Turakhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vpopmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:12 AM
Subject: Forward causes mail to go into Infinite loop
> 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.
>
> How do i make sure that the email is cleaned up if it forwards to itself
and
> not go into an infinite loop???
>
> Divyank
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