[Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web
J C Lawrence
claw@kanga.nu
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:45:23 -0800
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:12:24 -0500
Barry A Warsaw <barry@digicool.com> wrote:
> Mailman kills loops by adding an X-BeenThere: header with the list
> address as the value. If it detects such a header on an incoming
> message, it throws a LoopError, which is currently defined to
> discard the message. Not all mail loops will preserve
> X-BeenThere, but I think in practice it works pretty well.
Note that many MTAs also have their own loop detection. Postfix for
instance hooks off Delivered-To:.
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