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Unlucky. Sorry to hear of your troubles. I think email is terrible anyway. It's so insecure. We need to invent something better. Or just use the things already out there (eg PM, identi.ca) 2009/12/4 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Thought I'd send postmaster email to my google account whilst I migrated > email server settings. Thinking it would make it easy to read any error > messages. > > Except I'd made a silly oversight with the chroot config (doh). > > So that when I switched the address, got email almost working, and then > sent an email, it barfed, sending an email to Postmaster. > > Google forwarded this to me, which caused it to issue a "4xx" message > deferring the message, and sending ANOTHER email to Google telling me > something was wrong with the email config. > > Now google has 2 emails to postmaster to deliver, and when they failed, > it gets sent 2 more emails saying something is wrong with the config, > making 4. > > 4 deliveries, 4 deferrals, and 4 more emails to Postmaster. > > I think you can see where this is going.... > > 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 8 ..... > > Thankfully conforming email systems back off, so that exponential growth > is translated to something more linear. I figured out the mistake in a > few minutes, and I think I've stopped getting error messages from Google. > > When I saw the log messages I thought I'd created a simple mail loop. > But no it had the potential to be much worse. > > I guess the moral is make sure that the Postmaster account is either > local, or working, when fiddling with email. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- Dan Dart _____ Need a website? Want some music tailored to you? Visit http://www.dandart.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html