Re: [exim-dev] Authenticated_id and redirect condition

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Leszek Dubiel
CC: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Authenticated_id and redirect condition
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Leszek Dubiel wrote:

> Hmmmm.... Maybe I don't understand routing well, but when address passes
> unseen router "copysend" (config below) then it gets redirected. Then
> address goes through copysend again, and is redirected to kowalski
> again. Then address starts from the beginning, and so on... But exim
> somehow stops that loop, and mail to kowalski gets deliverd, but headers
> are untouched.


I have not yet looked at this in detail (may do so later today), but
that is Exim's standard loop-breaking algorithm. It automatically skips
a router that has previously processed the current address. So if a
router redirects A->B and next time redirects B->B then the third time
it will skip because it has already processed B.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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