[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-228680 ] Infinite loops with Auto-Reply

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Bugs item #228680, was opened at 2001-01-13 13:50
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Category: mail delivery
>Group: 2.0.x
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Infinite loops with Auto-Reply

Initial Comment:
An infinite mail loop is created when a 
- member of a mailing list has an Out Of The Office or other Auto-Reply set up and
- there is a misconfiguration of SMTP on the member's end (is what I'm told) and
- the mailing list is moderated with a "pending moderator approval" message sent to the sender of a message

Use case: person comes back from vacation and finds 3500 messages from Mailman saying "Your message is waiting for moderator approval", which were in response to her "I'm away on vacation" Auto-Reply


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>Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-08-23 18:35

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=12800

I believe this problem is resolved in the latest MM2.1 betas
through the use of various techniques, including not
autoresponding to messages that have a Precedence:
{junk,list,bulk} header, and a built-in governor for the
number of autoreplies to any one address in a single day.

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