Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

From: Gary Mills (no email)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2008 - 12:39:55 EDT

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    Once again, we had somebody use the sieve facility to redirect e-mail
    back to the same mailbox and then go on vacation. This sets up a
    forwarding loop which cyrus breaks by discarding the e-mail. During
    this vacation, all of the person's e-mail disappeared.

    Shouldn't we have a better solution to this problem? Some people
    expect that forwarding e-mail to yourself should work; nobody expects
    the messages to vanish without a trace.

    Once the message has been `seen' and is about to be forwarded again,
    it would be better to deliver the message into the mailbox, rather
    than deleting it. Is this possible with the current design of the
    duplicate delivery database?

    -- 
    -Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
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