[Xitami] problem n apology

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <001601c11522$74977980$69209cca@PROZAK>, "Jeff Scarlets" writes:
>it just came to my attention that my mailing list server is causing 
>problems. on my local mail server i set the alias to send mail to 
>jeff@scarlets.ath.cx to my actual account. however i did not realize 
>that there is a loop within. i have removed the server and hopefully 
>fixed the problem.

Thanks.  You came very close to being removed from the list, and
possibly banned from it: mail configuration errors that send their error
messages back to the list are very bad, and ones that then process their
own input (ie, feeding on their own problems) are very very bad.

(For those wondering I was doing little things like sleeping, which is
why it didn't get removed earlier.  Sorry for the inconvenience.)

Anyway planning on forwarding messages from the mailing list somewhere
should be _very_ careful to test it properly, and monitor it in case
something goes wrong.  And very very careful that it doesn't send error
messages back to the mailing list, or people who post to thel list.

Ewen

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com