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From: hubert@cac.washington.edu (Steve Hubert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: MAXHOPS
Message-ID: <10811@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 19:57:05 GMT
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We've actually had a couple recent cases of "legitimate" addresses that
went through more than 17 hops and were returned.  They were legitimate
in the sense that they would have eventually reached the address if the
value of MAXHOPS had been higher.  These were a combination of mailing
lists in mailing lists and forwards and so on.  I'm not worried about cases
like this failing now and then, but it did make me think that maybe it is
time to raise the value of MAXHOPS in the next version of sendmail so that
this is fixed before it becomes a real problem.

Steve Hubert
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Wash., Seattle
hubert@cac.washington.edu