[Mailman-Users] looping

[Gerhard den Hollander]

> > In short, no.  You cannot defend easily against gratuitously broken 
> > software.  I would personally see if there was an identifying mark in 
> > the headers for the mailer that guy was using and use that as a 
> > selector to catch incoming mail to the list.  I'd also probably just 
> > block the whole originating domain of that guy in my MTA, but I have a 
> > nasty inclination.

Wouldn't it be possible to have mailman add a header
X-Processed-By: Mailman-$listname
on resending, and mailman refusing (or pending for administartive manual
intervention) any incoming email that has this
X-Processed-By: Mailman-$listname

header ?


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