kmail and forwarding

James F. Hranicky jfh at cise.ufl.edu
Wed Mar 1 21:02:03 GMT 2006


I'm running into a problem with kmail and forwarding.

It appears that when I forward messages to a mailing list that I'm
also on, I get a bounce back due to a mail forwarding loop.

When I check my Sent folder, it appears that kmail is sometimes
creating a message and adding all of the headers from the message
to be forwarded into the current message, e.g., the Delivered-To:
header.

I believe when postfix sees a Delivered-To: with the same address 
as the current recipient is decides that there is a loop and bounces
it.

Here's a sample of the headers I found for one of the messages in my
Sent folder. The original message was delivered to me at 10:42. 

At 14:43 I forwarded the message to a mailing list I'm on 
(alist at cise.ufl.edu):

    From owner-alist at cise.ufl.edu  Wed Mar  1 10:42:56 2006
*                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Return-Path: <owner-alist at cise.ufl.edu>
    X-Original-To: alist-outgoing at cise.ufl.edu
    Delivered-To: jfh at cise.ufl.edu
    Received: by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix)
        id B2BB4CF0; Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:56 -0500 (EST)
    Delivered-To: alist-outgoing at cise.ufl.edu
    Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2E2CEE
        for <alist-outgoing at cise.ufl.edu>; Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:56 -0500 
(EST)
    Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu ([127.0.0.1])
     by localhost (fir.cise.ufl.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
     with ESMTP id 00573-05 for <alist-outgoing at cise.ufl.edu>;
     Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:55 -0500 (EST)
    Received: by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix, from userid 65551)
        id 6F263CEB; Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:55 -0500 (EST)
    X-Original-To: alist at cise.ufl.edu
    Delivered-To: alist at cise.ufl.edu
    Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5854CDA
        for <alist at cise.ufl.edu>; Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:54 -0500 (EST)
    Received: from mail.cise.ufl.edu ([127.0.0.1])
     by localhost (fir.cise.ufl.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
     with ESMTP id 00123-08 for <alist at cise.ufl.edu>;
     Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:54 -0500 (EST)
    Received: from test-suse.cise.ufl.edu (test-suse.cise.ufl.edu 
[128.227.205.53])
        (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits))
        (No client certificate requested)
        by mail.cise.ufl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD19CE0
        for <alist at cise.ufl.edu>; Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:42:53 -0500 (EST)
    From: "James F. Hranicky" <jfh at cise.ufl.edu>
    Organization: University of Florida CISE Department
    To: alist at cise.ufl.edu
    Subject: Fwd: 445 furniture
    Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:43:53 -0500
*   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    User-Agent: KMail/1.8
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Disposition: inline
    Message-Id: <200603011443.54155.jfh at cise.ufl.edu>
    X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cise.ufl.edu
    Precedence: bulk
    X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cise.ufl.edu
    X-UID: 507
    X-Length: 2327
    X-KMail-Link-Message: 98655
    X-KMail-Link-Type: forward
    Content-Type: text/plain;
      charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    Status: RO
    X-Status: RSC
    X-KMail-EncryptionState:  
    X-KMail-SignatureState:  
    X-KMail-MDN-Sent:  

Notice that the all the old headers are now present in the new message. 
The Date: field, however, is set properly.

Has anyone seen this behavior before? 

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