On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 03:44:33PM +0530, Vikaas BV wrote:
> I was wondering what happens when I send a mail to myself such that the
> message exceeds the total quota allocated to my box. This obviously
> generates an error message and if my box at that point in time is full, the
> error message that is generated will again give rise to another and hence
> there is a cascade of error messages.
>
> Can anyone tell me from their experience, how exactly exim behaves in this
> case.
RTFM: received_headers_max
When a message is to be delivered, the number of `Received:' headers is
counted, and if it is greater than this parameter, a mail loop is
assumed to have occurred, the delivery is abandoned, and an error
message is generated. This applies to both local and remote deliveries.
Earlier versions of Exim did this test only for remote deliveries, but
because local deliveries (as Exim sees them) may in fact still cause a
message to be transported to a remote host, it was changed.
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