On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Antenna Support <support@antenna.nl> wrote:

Dear people, We just experienced a loop: a message was sent many times because it wasn't deleted in the /home/mailman/qfiles directory The error mailed was:

/usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner

sh: c.lovell@xtra.co.nz: command not found c... User unknown

It appeared that there was an address added to the list: m&c.lovell@xtra.co.nz

The loop could only be stopped by removing the .msg and .db file in the qfiles directory. I also removed this address from the subscribers.

Aiiieee!

We should really sanitise inbound email addresses. "&" is not a legal char in a LHS.

-- J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.