Echo

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Sat Aug 17 21:38:21 UTC 2002


At 3:55 AM +0200 2002/08/17, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:

>>  	Also, how do you handle echoes of echoes?  For example, if I
>>  forged e-mail as being from echo at psi.net and addressed that to
>>  echo at rohrbach.de (or whatever), would this generate an endless loop?
>
>  X-Loop:

	Hmm.  If they send back the entire message as a forward (which 
would be reasonable), do you scan for this header in the body (i.e., 
in the forwarded part), or just in the headers of the message that 
you are receiving?


	Thanks again!

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