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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: limiting bounces
Message-ID: <1991May13.203608.11206@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 May 91 20:36:08 GMT
References: <1991May11.151523.21852@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991May11.151523.21852@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>I recently experienced a problem where due to a neighbor site doing
>mailer reconfiguration, I got lots of extra traffic due to messages
>bouncing back and forth, ending up with paths like 
>sysa!sysb!sysa!sysb!sysa!sysb....   

>I'm using smail 3.1.

>How can I set it up to limit the number of bounces to something
>reasonable?

It sounds like you are trying to use each other as smart-hosts.  The
only thing you can do in smail3 is to change the  max_hop_count setting
in the config file lower.  It just counts the Received: lines in the
headers and bounces when the number (default = 20) is exceeded.  Note
that the bounce follows the 20-hop path to go back.
If the site is question is not really your smart-host or a domain gateway,
something is drastically wrong.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us