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From: jwagner
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 18:51

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> What is the best way to handle looping mail? Yesterday, I was informed
> that someone at my node was receiving "looping mail" due to the way
> he specified his mail forwarding entries. By the time I went to investigate,
> the Mailer finally stopped with an "054.." message and Maximum Hop count
> exceeded. I received the bounced mail since I am DUVM's postmaster. Is
> there a quick method for stopping such incidents once they occur?
> BTW, we are running Mailer v2.05. Thanks for any help.
>
> -Rich

The only way to stop this (unless you are willing to wait for the hop count to
be exceeded) is to stop Mailer.  Then you have to wade through the stuff in
the reader to find the looping file (just look at the :received headers).

   John

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