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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:57:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@mt.sri.com, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, dennis@bbn.com, chat@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: verify taht bulk_mailer
Message-ID:  <199711261557.HAA26492@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199711261555.IAA02704@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 26, 97 08:55:36 am

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Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > > > > And losing the X-Loop: header. I was wondering how this was getting
> > > > > through my filters...
> > > > 
> > > > 	fie!  dont be case sensitive.
> > > > 	i inadvertently chaged from "X-Loop: FreeBSD.org"
> > > > 	to "X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG"  ;)
> > > 
> > > X-Loop?  Can someone explain a bit more what that's about?
> > 
> > X-Loop: was a header originally put in place to stop people that don't
> > understand the majordomo syntax subscribing one mailing list to the
> > other and getting mail loops (hence the name). Majordomo won't resend
> > messages received with an X-Loop header in them.
> 
> So, how are you using it in your filters?

	majordomo-1.92 is hacked to reject messages with this header.
	majordomo-1.94.4 has this as the default behavior
jmb



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