James in infinite loop and don't know where to start looking

[me...@mlc.com.au]

Hi all,


 Call me stupid, or maybe because I'm just a newbie...

 I've set up james as my mailserver; done the MX records stuff, worked fine
 at receiving my test messages to the various virtual domains therein.

 A few night ago, while I was at my PC, James received a message that it
 (rightfully) relegated to spam (as these domains have not yet been
 "released" upon the public).
 However, after that, James went berserk, sending Postmaster@localhost over
 10,050 messages before I cottoned on and killed the processes.
 I deleted the messages in the deadletter table, then restarted James, and
 there he went again, sending the same messages over and over again.  So I
 stopped James - took him off the /etc/inetd/ list.

 I suspect that my configuration is in a loop:
 (See attached file: Config.xml)


 any ideas/suggestions as to where I should start looking? Or is this all
 too vague?

 Rgds

 Melroy


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RE: [junk] James in infinite loop and don't know where to start looking

[Daniel Perry <d....@netcase.co.uk>]

This may be a stupid question, but does Postmaster@localhost go to anyone?

I hadn't set this to a real user, and james went mad (bounceing messages
back and forth between postmaster) and generated tens of thousands of
messages.

Daniel.

ps. you included your admin username/password and pop3 fetcher username and
password in the attachment :)

-----Original Message-----
From: melroy_drego@mlc.com.au [mailto:melroy_drego@mlc.com.au]
Sent: 04 March 2004 23:13
To: James Users List
Subject: [junk] James in infinite loop and don't know where to start
looking






Hi all,


 Call me stupid, or maybe because I'm just a newbie...

 I've set up james as my mailserver; done the MX records stuff, worked fine
 at receiving my test messages to the various virtual domains therein.

 A few night ago, while I was at my PC, James received a message that it
 (rightfully) relegated to spam (as these domains have not yet been
 "released" upon the public).
 However, after that, James went berserk, sending Postmaster@localhost over
 10,050 messages before I cottoned on and killed the processes.
 I deleted the messages in the deadletter table, then restarted James, and
 there he went again, sending the same messages over and over again.  So I
 stopped James - took him off the /etc/inetd/ list.

 I suspect that my configuration is in a loop:
 (See attached file: Config.xml)


 any ideas/suggestions as to where I should start looking? Or is this all
 too vague?

 Rgds

 Melroy


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