+----- On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:10:58 PST, "J.D. Falk" writes:
| 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.
That seems reasonable though prevention of mail loops should be
mandatory.
/Michael