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[Mark Sallee <address@concealed>]

Actually there is one header in RT that you can use to filter:
X-RT-Loop-Prevention. You could add this to the procmail filter as well
as Sympa's X-Loop header.

Mark Sallee



Hanne Moa wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:21, Mark Sallee <address@concealed> wrote:
>   
>> We had a similar problem with RT (Request Tracker) and Sympa looping, so
>> we added some lines to the .procmailrc file on the RT system.
>>     
>
> We also have trouble with RT-installations. We have had to set the
> sympa loop-detection count very low because of this. RT doesn't use
> any of the usual indicators (List-headers etc.) to show that it is a
> robot, and doesn't recognize any of the ususal indicators either.
>
> This is a potential DOS, if somebody maliciously uses a sympa-address
> in an rt-ticket, or subscribes rt to a sympa-list.
>
>
> HM
>