On 7 February 2000, Bennett Todd <bet(_at_)rahul(_dot_)net> wrote:
2000-02-07-09:11:44 Brian Dawson:
To make things more complicated, we use 1 .procmailrc in every users
home directory. This rc file determines if the user has a forwarding
or autoreply based on a database that holds our customer forwarding
and autoreply records. So the solution must be generic enough to put
in every rc file.
What would break if you added, at the top of every .procmailrc, the
recipes
:0:
* ^X-BeenHere-DoneThat: $LOGNAME
ouchouchouch-verypainfullloop
:0 hfw
| formail -A "X-BeenHere-DoneThat: $LOGNAME"
[...]
If I understand this correctly, the first poster's problem is not
how to avoid what most people out there would call "mail loops", but how
to reject large bounce messages, preferably before they get to swamp
users' quotas. As somebody else suggested, this is a task for the MTA,
not for Procmail.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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