Re: .forward loops

Subject: Re: .forward loops
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 19:30:27 CST

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Thomas Andres:
>
> > However, "mail forwarding loop" means the mail with delivered-to
> > is delivered again to the same address, so you *do* have a genuine
> > mailer loop.
>
> Not necessarily!
>
> I just had to build a weird setup where 2 hosts are the final destination
> of the same domain. The real destination is determined via aliases (
> user: userhost1
> user2: userhost2)

Delivered-To: contains the envelope recipient. Your loop can happen
only when multiple systems claim responsibility for the same envelope
recipient address. That is not how I would set things up.

        Wietse

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