🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 18 Mar 1992 11:20:42 SET Dr. Hans J. Wenzel +49 2331 987-2848 said:
>Hmmm ... is this a good choise ? I did so for a few years and it seemed
>to work. But suddenly I had a MAIL loop.
>What happened ? A mailing list which leaves the TO:-field as the
>listname and only sets the receivers in the (B)SMTP envelop. The address
>of the receiver is lost when the file is sent to system. So MAILER
>looks for the TO:-field and send it back to the list. :-(
>So I stopped this procedure.

Maybe I'm missing something, but worrying about mail systems which send
SMTP mail to my system but don't bother sending via my (well publicized)
MAILER seems like paranoia, even if it's happened once.  That's like not
driving because you were in a traffic accident once.  They're not my
fault, and if they can send SMTP, they *should* know better.  If I find
such a loop, I'd flame the postmaster at the originating site.  If the
problem persists, I'd try to get the user off the list s/he's on, but
life's just too short to worry about such misconfigured systems.

Just a thought,
Nick

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