Subject: RE: Mail loop??

From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:29:20 +0200

Same things happens on the hubmib list for the last two days.

Regards,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]]On Behalf Of Tom Taylor
> Sent: 23 January, 2004 5:21 PM
> To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Mail loop??
> 
> 
> I'm getting a whole series of messages held for my list with 
> the subject:
> 
> Spam mail warning notification! (Non-English trap)
> 
> These come from the IETF system itself.  Nothing in these 
> notices gives any clue 
> as to the nature and origin of the blocked content itself, 
> other than the spam 
> scores).  What leaves me with the uneasy feeling that the 
> system is generating 
> messages to itself, is that the messages seem to encapsulate 
> messages that have 
> already passed through the IETF mail chain.  To take a recent 
> example, one message 
> today had the following structure:
> 
> Envelope: the IETF chain, time stamps from 03:49:03 to 
> 04:22:18 -0500, earliest 
> Received is from ietf-mx.ietf.org for [email-masked].  The From is 
> [email-masked], Date is 03:48:44 -0500.  X-Spam-Status: 
> No, hits=1.6 
> required=5.0 tests=AWL,MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART, NO_REAL_NAME 
> autolearn=no version=2.60
> 
> Next MIME part is text/plain, the eManager notification.  
> Source mailbox is shown 
> as [email-masked].  Destination mailbox is [email-masked].
> 
> Next MIME part is another set of headers, also showing 
> passage through the IETF 
> mail chain.  Time stamps 03:47:06 to 03:47:58 -0500, Date 
> 03:46:49 -0500, From 
> [email-masked], To [email-masked].  X-Spam-Status: No, 
> hits=1.8 
> required=5.0 tests=AWL,CLICK_BELOW, 
> MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART,NO_REAL_NAME,UPPERCASE_25_50 autolearn=no 
> version=2.60
> 
> The next part is cut off in my web view, but is probably the 
> real message.  Note 
> that the spam scores differ between the first iteration and 
> the second one.
> 
> I guess you need to make sure the spam alerts are not routed 
> to the list itself, 
> only to the administrator.
> 
> Tom Taylor
> 
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