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Re: Echo


From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:38:21 +0200


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 () psi net and addressed that to
 echo () 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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