Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:43:23 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Wayne Sierke <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail rejects incoming messages with large number of 'received' headers Message-ID: <20050206184323.GA67905@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <1107688341.676.34.camel@au.dyndns.ws> References: <1107688341.676.34.camel@au.dyndns.ws>
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:42:21PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> My FreeBSD mail server includes a getmail/sendmail/maildrop combination
> which occasionally fails when getmail retrieves a message via POP which
> has a large number of 'received' headers which result in it being
> rejected by sendmail. Is there some way of convincing sendmail to accept
> these messages, other than arbitrarily increasing MaxHopCount?
Not really. All MTA have a MaxHopCount feature to prevent mail-looping
due to misconfiguration. You won't appreciate it until you've have
thousands of emails bouncing between 2 servers due to a
misconfiguration.
Your best bet is to up your MaxHopCount to some reasonably large
number to cover your situation, eg: 100?
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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