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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Could you please send us an example of such a message (the one that 
causes the loop)?
We will see what make it miss the test.
Regards,

Adam Bernstein a écrit :
> Howdy Sympa folks.  We've increasingly had problems with infinite mail 
> loops getting started between our server and another (the other server 
> is often also a listserver, maybe even a Sympa server) via commands 
> like "lists" and "help".  Although we have Sympa's loop detection 
> turned on and set to a low threshhold (10 commands in 1 hour) and it 
> does catch and stop some loops, it does not catch these.  I take it 
> that's because of the line in sympa.pl that counts and blocks 
> responses only if there is a "report", which must mean something other 
> than "any response", since these commands are obviously generating 
> responses but are not getting counted.
>
> The conditional line in 5.3.3 is:
>
>     if (&report::is_there_any_report_cmd()) {
>
> We need to expand the loop prevention to cover all commands, so I'm 
> wondering, can we just take that condition out?  Or else how to modify 
> it?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>      ab

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David Verdin
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