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From: idc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Ian Crorie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers
Subject: SUN sendmail MAXHOP
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Date: 19 Jun 89 21:55:40 GMT
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Sun sendmail seems to have MAXHOP set to 15 by default (unlike the 30
of other BSD based systems I've seen).   Recently a number of messages
from mailing lists have exceeded 15 hops before reaching their destination
and Sun systems at two of our leaf sites have returned them to sender.

At least Sun provide a configuration option to change MAXHOP; add

# Set max. no. of hops to something more realistic than 15 (SUN sendmail only)
Oh30

(or whatever value you prefer) to base.m4 (UK-1.X - who has time to install
2.1? (:-) ).


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