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[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

Thomas Barth wrote:

> Hi,
> after sending an email to my testlist from email-client an error is
> printed to sympa.log:
>
> Jan  5 12:17:14 dev sympa[32530]: Ignoring message which would cause a
> loop, sent by address@concealed
> Jan  5 12:17:14 dev sympa[32530]: Moving bad file
> address@concealed to bad/
>
> But when I copy an prepared email to the msg-folder of my testlist, the
> email is sent to all subsribers.
>
> What can be the reason for the loop?

This is not a loop but a prevention of loop. Various SMTP headers such 
as Autoforwarded: true are detected to prevent loops. In addition, 
sympa.pl store a list of message-id to prevent a message to be 
ditributed twice to the same list. Also it is not possible to send a 
message that is comming for another list.

Serge Aumont