On 02/16/99, Michael Salmon
<Michael(_dot_)Salmon(_at_)uab(_dot_)ericsson(_dot_)se> wrote:
| In order to prevent mail loops, an implementation MUST refuse to
| filter a message that it has already filtered once; that is, a
| message must not pass through a given server twice.
This seems excessive to me, especially as servers are becoming larger
and larger all the time. I think that mail loops would be prevented if
a message could only be kept or discarded when it had been seen twice
by the same user.
I don't think this RFC is the place to specify how to stop
mail loops, except insofar as "an implementation SHOULD be
smart enough to prevent looping of messages." A seperate
"Best Current Practice" draft would be more appropriate,
and I'd love to work with somebody on that.
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