A filter rule to catch the hotmail replies and MOVE the msg to the user folder will not trigger the FORWARD file.

Hi,

I have a user with a FORWARD file, which sends an email to hotmail.

After sending 25 emails to Hotmail, each additional email sent results in a reply from Hotmail, telling me the limit was hit.

Because of the FORWARD file, each of these emails is, of course, sent to Hotmail, creating an endless loop.

Temporarily, the FORWARD file is renamed.  As a permanent fix, I am thinking of creating a Filter to eliminate all emails from this particular Hotmail account.

It seems there is no way to add any logic to the FORWARD file.  It would be nice if I could exclude emails there. 

Is this a good solution?

Sincerely,

Victor Reinhart

File based forwarding is very easy to set up but has no additional logic connected to it. To kill incoming messages from a specific sender a filter rule would probably be the best approach, as you suggest. Mercury is usually quite good at catching message loops automatically though, but there are some cases that can't be detected.

On the other hand, if the Hotmail account often is close to capacity there should probably not be any forwarding at all to it...