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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: limiting bounces
Message-ID: <lyndon.674163786@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 13 May 91 19:43:06 GMT
References: <1991May11.151523.21852@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Athabasca University
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bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>I'm using smail 3.1.
>How can I set it up to limit the number of bounces to something
>reasonable?

In config, set max_hop_count to whatever value you want. The default
is 20. This won't help you if the address you are bouncing back to
us bogus.
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    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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