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[mike ledoux]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:54:15AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> > In fact, we discovered the theoretical possibility of a mail message doing
> > figure-8s between our sendmail/cyrus server and the Exchange server!
> 
>   I used to work at UNH.  Imagine hundreds of computers, used by
> faculty/staff, running anything from DOS to MacOS to NetWare to doze
> to nix.  Many of them processing mail for their primary user.
> Sometimes mail hopped between four or five systems before end-user
> delivery.  One scenario I saw was first.last at unh.edu ->
> username at cismachine.unh.edu -> username at dept.unh.edu ->
> username at oldpersonalmachine.dept.unh.edu ->
> username at newpersonalmachine.dept.unh.edu!  You can imagine what mail
> loops were like in that environment...

You forgot the -> mwl at alumni.unh.edu -> mwl at mail.volta.dyndns.org
bit at the end of all that. :)

The really scary bit is that some of those addresses still work
today, 7+ years after I left.

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 new coat.