[tor-bugs] #34286 [Applications/GetTor]: gettor appears to be in an email loop war with a .sk address

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#34286: gettor appears to be in an email loop war with a .sk address
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     Reporter:  arma                 |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/GetTor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal               |   Keywords:
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 I happened to be looking at eugeni's mail.log for other debugging, and saw
 that approximately 25% of the lines in mail.log contain the string gettor.

 (Yesterday, eugeni's postfix had 460k lines in it, and 101k of them said
 "gettor" in them. Today in the first hour or so, it's 7k out of 25k.)

 Does gettor get into fights with external addresses, where it replies to
 the bounce, gets another bounce and replies to that, etc?

 There are probably smart guidelines for avoiding mail loop wars, like not
 answering names that start with mailer-domain, checking for the presence
 of an X-Something-Something header, or rate limiting responses to a given
 address.

 And this is a great case where unifying how bridgedb handles its email
 answers, and how gettor does it, will save a lot of headache.

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