From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 13:56:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132EE14CFE for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11200; Fri, 21 May 1999 08:53:03 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:53:03 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: peter kok Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: mail In-Reply-To: <3743F3CD.BBE3E820@sweda.com.hk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 May 1999, 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'? The email has been bouncing thru' too many servers. > Why does cause it? Bad config, usually. If you examine the headers of the attached email, you can see the it's looping back to the same server. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" > > ------ Failure Reasons -------- > > Message has exceeded maximum hop count > > ------- Returned Message -------- > Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by > stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2 (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP > id 48256777.0033A564; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:24:06 +0800 > Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by > stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2 (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP > id 48256777.00339EE2; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:23:50 +0800 > Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by > stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2 (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP > id 48256777.00339501; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:23:24 +0800 > Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by > stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2 (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP > id 48256777.00338BAF; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:23:00 +08 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message