Re: Odd problem

Steve Mallett <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:06:48 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Steve Mallett wrote:
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but indulge me please.
> 
> I just setup ASK last evening after moving to a new mail client & not 
> wanting to jam it full of mail filters first.
> 
> Over the last month or so I setup a cronjob that was emailing me 
> results.  It came to me only.  root@ -> steve@
> 
> After I installed ASK it began generating "Runaway confirmations" loop 
> msgs for these emails. I should have added [email protected] to the 
> whitelist.....
> 
> However, these Runaway confirmatiom msgs were also sent to someone with 
> whom I share an email alias (one of the accounts I listed in .askrc)
> 
> How could that be?
> 

Problem solved.  I listed the alias first in .askrc in my list of 
addresses and hence it sent the warning to that one.  duh.

-- 
Steve Mallett
http://steve.osdir.com


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