> Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes >> a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided? > >> The mail system >> >> <centos at centos.org>: mail forwarding loop for centos at centos.org > > I haven't the faintest idea *why* those happen. Especially as the mails > in question do make it through to the list (and I never got one of > those, so I cannot really look at all the headers). > > There is a user "centos" on that machine, but as aliases >> local users > in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas. i got one as well and when i looked in the headers it appears to be getting generated via a ohio state trying to reinject the message back to the list. Received: from meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu (meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu [128.146.117.124]) by mail.centos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8326B67B45 for <centos at centos.org>; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gollum.asc.ohio-state.edu ([128.146.117.98]) by meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:36 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by gollum.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:34 -0400 Received: from exchange.asc.ohio-state.edu ([128.146.117.123]) by meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:18:04 -0400 Received: from tnc-mta-2.it.ohio-state.edu ([140.254.54.48]) by exchange.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:41:16 -0400