[RESOLVED] Understanding auto response emails

[Ultimater]

I'm just curious what would happen if two different domains have an auto response email setup and one of the servers emailed the other. Would the two email each other with auto response emails non-stop?

[David Harrison]

You would have to assume so, though it's hard to see why they would get into that loop in the first place.

[rhsunderground]

paradox?

[David Harrison]

No, just an infinite loop, it's like while(true).

[JayM]

Would be quite hilarious to watch.

[KDLA]

Depends on the rules set up for the auto response. Some programs let you set up a "send it only once" rule.

KDLA

[rhsunderground]

Depends on the rules set up for the auto response. Some programs let you set up a "send it only once" rule.

KDLA
you just want to ruin our fun. FUN HATER!

[KDLA]

Hello -- is this thread a resurrection of the geek thread or what? ;)

HA HA :D

[Watts]

>>>Would the two email each other with auto response emails non-stop?

Yes, until something filled up or crashed.

Happened to us once. Secretary sent email to Director (who had out-of-office reply on) and the secretary had turned her's on as she left. We noticed it when email server bombed out after a couple of days. Gee, why is the HD full???? Of course this was 15 years ago and the HD only held like 340 megs.

[The Little Guy]

If you sent the emails to one free account, after each autoresponse how fast do you think you would fill up your space limit?

I hatched an Idea, lets make 100's of GMail accounts and try it :-)

[The Little Guy]

I made 2 auto responders, that had this:
$eaddress = "untuned20ster@gmail.com";
$subject = "Hi";
$message = "AutoResponse";
$headers = "From: AutoResponse1" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
$result = mail("$eaddress", "$subject", $message, $headers);
header("location:auto2.php");
one was header:auto2.php
the other was header:auto1.php

2 things happened here:
1 - Gmail stopped accepting after about 60 replies in less than 1 minute
2 - FireFox, and Internet Explorer both produced and error of an infinite loop.


I next tried to make each subject, and who it was from, both have random numbers in them. This didn't work at all.

[Ultimater]

Thanks for clarifying guys; especially David Harrison, Watts, and the Little Guy! I have a better understanding how auto responses work now. I was afraid this would happen…