On 00-12-07 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Bug report:
> The procmailrc file /usr/doc/devscripts/examples/master.procmail.gz,
> original version of which I presume is ~edward/.procmailrc on
> master.debian.org, has no loop checking at all.
>
> This normally wouldn't be an important problem if a mail error message (i.e.
> a bounce) with such a thing didn't cause Exim on the machine to go bezerk,
> enter a mail loop, and cause a load of 100 on the poor machine! And it
> already happened two times (or more, I'm not sure).
Which version of exim does the submitter use? How has he set up
procmail? Directly in exim or via .forward file? What does he mean with
Exim going bezerk exactly? Normally Exim contains a fine Loop-Detection
which will bounce a message after more then 25 Received-Header or
something like that. So I would appreciate some more information to find
out, what exactly happened on the machine of the submitter. I
don't understand how Exim can go bezerk here according to the submitter
and create a load of 100. I use Exim now for quite some time and don't
really believe that this is Exim causing such a high load.
Ciao
Christian
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