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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