[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-231776 ] Digest From address causing mail loop

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Bugs item #231776, was opened at 2001-02-09 17:39
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Category: mail delivery
>Group: 2.0.x
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Submitted By: D.J. Atkinson (deejster)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Digest From address causing mail loop

Initial Comment:
Synopsis: Request that "From" address for digest distributions be changed from <list>-request to <list>-owner

I just had a situation where:

1) Digest went out
2) The user at remote.com was unknown (for whatever reason)
3) mdaemon@remote.com replied to the digest From address ("list-request@here.com")
4) the MM request processor said "your commands don't make sense" and sent it back to mdaemon@remote.com
5) mdaemon@remote.com [which apparently is also a command processor] said "your commands don't make sense" and sent it back to list-request@here.com
6) 4 & 5 get repeated ad-infinitum and the message grows like a snowball rolling down a mountain.

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>Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-08-23 18:28

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=12800

This should be fixed in MM2.1 through various techniques,
including not autoresponding to Priority: {junk,list,bulk}
messages, and a built-in governor maxing out the number of
responses sent to any one address per day.

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