Re: What happen if two host forward email to each other?

[Jens Müller <jens@unfaehig.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "hingwah" <hingwah@programmer.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 7:42 PM
Subject: What happen if two host forward email to each other?


> For example,a user have a username of foo in 2 host,host1 and
> host2.............
> in host1 .........content of .forward : foo@host2
> in host2 ...........content of .forward : foo@host1
> what  will happen?the email sending to each other nonstoply? making the
> mailing server very busy?
> or the email will be discard?
>
Each server adds a Recieved-Header. At some point (30 hops or so), the
message will be routed back to the sender.

mfg
Jens Müller