Re: Frank Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die
Note that there is a new RFC 3834 - titled "Recommendations for Automatic
Responses to Electronic Mail" which, if implemented, would cover some of the
edge cases which are not already covered by DSNs
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:44, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Loop detection implemented in MTAs is, however, a crude hack. Simply
> > counting the Received:-Headers is by no means reliable. A good scheme
> > for e-mail loop detection would work significantly different.
>
> qmail inserts a Delivered-To: header when it does final delivery, and
> rejects mails which already have that header.
>
> This fails several common usages, such as
> Receive mail.
> Have mail misfiled due to incomplete filter rules.
> Fix filter and bounce mail back to self.
> Watch mail vanish into the bit bucket.
>
> --
> Matthias Urlichs
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