[ale] mail loops

[Jim Kinney]

The big question is why send it to the speakeasy account at all?  Since you
already have a mailserver cleaning up the piles of feces produced by vermin
who should be slowly dipped viagra with a pH of around 13, why not just get
your mail from there?

Secondly, why not just drop any virus email into the bit bucket? Sending it
in any form is just a bad idea.

Thirdly, tagging is insufficient. Clean the pile of feces off the message if
it can't be thrown away. Don't send a virus anywhere but the bit bucket.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sean <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> Odd problem.  The account I use for Ale and some other groups
> (oppositelock.org) is maintained by my son.  Earlier today a spammer
> sent me an email with one of the common viri attached. The mail
> server dutifully tagged the message as infected spam and sent it
> along to my Speakeasy account, where Speakeasy saw the virus and
> bounced it back to oppositelock,org. Then the two mail servers played
> badmitten with the message until it had ballooned to 1.9 Mgb in
> a seemingly infinite mail loop.  At one point the many copies of this
> thing
> had nearly filled up my allocated disk space at Speakeasy.  I'm not sure
> how big that is, but I've never been above 15-20% before -- and that only
> after being away from a computer for two weeks or more.
>
> Short term solution at oppositelock is to drop all "bounced" messages into
> /dev/null, but what might be a better solution for cutting this kind of
> recursive mail loop?
>
> Sean
>
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