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Re: Echo

  • From: Karsten W. Rohrbach
  • Date: Fri Aug 16 21:56:44 2002

Brad Knowles([email protected])@2002.08.16 23:46:51 +0000:
> At 9:43 PM +0200 2002/08/16, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> 
> >  - scoreboard: one mail from one source addres in one minute time window
> 
> 	Do you just queue messages from source addresses, so that you 
> don't generate more than one echo in a minute, or do you throw away 
> every message from that source address which was generated less than 
> one minute ago?

please, see the other answer in this thread.

> 
> 	Also, how do you handle echoes of echoes?  For example, if I 
> forged e-mail as being from [email protected] and addressed that to 
> [email protected] (or whatever), would this generate an endless loop?

X-Loop:

> 
> 	What if I put "[email protected],[email protected]" as the return address? 
> Would you send back two copies?

No.

> 	Just curious.  Thanks!

regards,
/k
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