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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Not as smart as I thought, I mean. I've noted that I'd set up a clever Procmail recipe to automatically forward and respond to my incoming mail on my old address, provided the mail wasn't from or to a mailing list.
Raise your hand if you've ever heard the phrase "mail loop".
Yeah. I created one somehow. I haven't really analyzed how it happened (and I don't really care to), but it has something to do with having received a message with a blank "From:" field. The auto-responder tried to reply, the message bounced, the auto-responder tried to reply to that, it bounced, and so on and so on. End result: I had several hundred thousand daemon-generated messages in my mail queue. Several thousand of them actually got delivered to my aol.com account, filling up my mailbox, and causing me to be automatically unsubscribed from a couple of mailing lists (because the list server detected it couldn't send me mail anymore).
Remember how I said I'd rather have people more competent than me in charge of my mail? This is why.
Woops.
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. . . and neither am I
Embarrassed
Not as smart as I thought, I mean. I've noted that I'd set up a clever Procmail recipe to automatically forward and respond to my incoming mail on my old address, provided the mail wasn't from or to a mailing list.
Raise your hand if you've ever heard the phrase "mail loop".
Yeah. I created one somehow. I haven't really analyzed how it happened (and I don't really care to), but it has something to do with having received a message with a blank "From:" field. The auto-responder tried to reply, the message bounced, the auto-responder tried to reply to that, it bounced, and so on and so on. End result: I had several hundred thousand daemon-generated messages in my mail queue. Several thousand of them actually got delivered to my aol.com account, filling up my mailbox, and causing me to be automatically unsubscribed from a couple of mailing lists (because the list server detected it couldn't send me mail anymore).
Remember how I said I'd rather have people more competent than me in charge of my mail? This is why.
Woops.
kocik01 at 7:30:00 AM EDT Blog about this entry |
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