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Very, very bad mail routing loops. A classic example (with screenshots)


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Brand new server, tons of available space.  Suddenly it disappears.  Poof!  A magical 50GB gone.  Oh where for art thou free disk space?  Let us look.

It all starts at  2:59pm yesterday  as seen in the following image


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By the time the clock reaches 5:47am this morning  the same mail message has now grown to an incredible 25MB in size

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So how many times did it loop before the disk started being eaten up?  Here is that screenshot too

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So what does that mean?  Loops suck.