Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:24:34 -0800 (PST) From: -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail: mail loops back to myself Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110172257.4499N-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110195756.29736A-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, -Vince- wrote:
>
> > majordomo runned mailing lists, like for some reason a digest goes out on
> > 1/9/96 at 00:06 -800 PST so it bounces back to the list but it looks like
>
> a digest should never bounce back to the list. all mail from
> majordomo should bounce to either the postmaster or majordomo-owner or
> the list owner. your outbound headers are incorrect.
I know I have this correct since this was the setup given to me
by Paul Close and Brent Chapman. It's just this one site uses the Reply-To:
line for the address instead of the sender or path lines and bounces it
back as apollo.COSC.GOV!gus-general-digest
> > it was the original digest headers since the From: and To: line didn't
> > change. The problem is that even after removing the person(s) with the
> > bouncing problem, it seems their system is resending the same bounce over
> > and over to the lists, is there a way to completely filter out any
>
> yes, all incoming messages go to either majordomo or resend. i
> have patches for both.
>
> resend: after line 226
> if ( /^from:\s*(.+)/i )
> {
> $from = $1;
> $from_last = 1;
> if ( ( $1 =~ /first bozo/i )
> || ( $1 =~ /repeat as required/i ) ) {
> &bounce("Kill Filter");
> }
> }
> elsif ( defined($from_last) )
>
> majordomo: after line 100
> # reject mail form this address
> # replace this with a generic facility
> if ($[ <= index($hdrs{'from'}, 'first bozo')
> || $[ <= index($hdrs{'from'}, 'repeat for each bozo') ) {
> &sendmail(TWIT, "postmaster", "$hdrs{'from'}");
> print TWIT "major polluter stopped\n";
> print TWIT "No action is required on your part.\n";
> close(TWIT);
> exit 0;
> }
Hmmm, Thanks!
Cheers,
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