From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 7: 8: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E3315072 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 07:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from forseti. (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15770; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:08:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by forseti. eboa.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA03176; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:07:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <374417D8.13604818@eboa.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:10:32 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: peter kok Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: mail References: <3743F3CD.BBE3E820@sweda.com.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG peter kok wrote: > > Hello all > > i received the following from undelivered message > What is the problem of that? > what is the meaning of 'Message has exceeded maximum hop count'? > Why does cause it? Unless memory fails me, when you install sendmail you also set the maximum hop count. This is the maximum number of hosts it will allow any mail message to be routed through before generating that error. I just looked and default it is commented out (in 3.1-STABLE): # maximum hop count #O MaxHopCount=17 Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message