Re: Mail loops

Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.xmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Gary Bainbridge wrote:

> I've been using quite an old version of xmail (1.25) quite successfully
> for a couple of years on a Synology server.
> 
> It's been very reliable, but I get the odd message which sticks in the
> spool with the following error:
> 
> >ErrCode = -163
> >ErrString = Mail loop detected
> >Message blocked by mail loop check !
> >SMTP-Error = "554 Message blocked by mail loop check"
> 
> The thing is that I can't see why a mail loop has occurred as it was
> simply an incoming message to me.
> 
> So my two questions are, can anyone explain why these messages get stuck
> when many other messages from the same senders get through? 
> 
> Secondly, is there any way to get these messages out of the spool? Simply
> resubmitting the email (using PHPXmail) doesn't help as the message
> simply gets marked with the same error again and stays in the spool.
> 
> Below is the header from one of the problem emails. Just to explain, my
> ..com domain is the address of my server, whereas the .co.uk domain is
> handled by my ISP who scan the email for spam, then forward it to my .com
> address.

Try to bump up the "MaxMTAOps" variable of the server.tab file ...


- Davide

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