[H-GEN] Duplicate messages.

[Bruce Campbell]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Bruce Campbell <bc at thehub.com.au>)


On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Michael Anthon wrote:

> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au>)
> 
> Errr... my apologies folks.  For some reason the damned stupid MS Exchange
> Server, which is configured to relay only to my Linux server for outgoing
> mail spacs out.  I sends the message to the Linux box, then leaves the
> message in the queue with "Host Unreachable" and keep trying over and over
> again.  

Astute people will notice that the lists slap an 'X-Loop' header onto
posts to the mailing list.  This stops posts from looping by an errant
mailer sending them back to the mailing lists itself.  

Unfortunately, the mailing lists do not check for duplicate message-IDs
which would have been the only thing to stop the above spew from Michael's
mail system.

Posts from Michael are now being moderated until I add a check for
duplicate message IDs on the incoming mail.

> I have no idea why.... the wonders of Micro$oft.

right now, this is tempting.

taboo_header    << END
/Microsoft/
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Bruce.



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