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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: limiting bounces
Message-ID: <1991May14.005523.12586@unixland.uucp>
Date: 14 May 91 00:55:23 GMT
References: <1991May11.151523.21852@unixland.uucp> <lyndon.674163786@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
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In article <lyndon.674163786@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>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.


Is there any good reason to let a message bounce more than, say, TWICE?
???


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