From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 18:43:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E50016A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:43:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D1243D45 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:43:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D7115647D; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:43:23 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:43:23 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Wayne Sierke Message-ID: <20050206184323.GA67905@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <1107688341.676.34.camel@au.dyndns.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1107688341.676.34.camel@au.dyndns.ws> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail rejects incoming messages with large number of 'received' headers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:43:25 -0000 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare