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Re: Looping messages




On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Peter Ziobrzynski wrote:

> > 
> > 
> >   Zmailer will loop messages if it can't deliver messages to the
> > postmaster.
> > 
> >   On one Zmailer machine, I have all postmaster mail forwarded to my
> > actual mail machine.  When Zmailer tried to send a copy of an error
> > message to me, but my mail machine wouldn't take it because it was too
> > big.  So then Zmailer generates another message to the postmaster with the
> > same results.  Each time the message grows in size, so it will never
> > actually get through.
> > 
> >   Zmailer should never bounce a message to an address from which the
> > message just bounced.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> 
> I had a similar problem but I think that the real reason is that Zmailer
> is trying to deliver undeliverable mail to postoffice and not postmaster.
> 
> If you merged aliases from stock sendmail then you will not find
> postoffice alias at all and then Zmailer really loops.

  Nope.  The above is just another sympton of the problem.  Undeliverable
postmaster/postoffice messages cause Zmailer to eat lots of CPU and disk.

Tom