Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:42:21 +1030 From: Wayne Sierke <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail rejects incoming messages with large number of 'received' headers Message-ID: <1107688341.676.34.camel@au.dyndns.ws>
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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? I have applied the 'no_delivered_to' and 'no_received' options to getmail to suppress its additional header insertion but the messages in question already have enough headers (from having been caught up in a loop somewhere on their way to the external POP server) to cause sendmail to reject them. Currently I am forced to delete the message manually from the POP server. Surprisingly I haven't been able to locate any details about how to deal with this situation. All the info I can find either simply re-states the sendmail doc re MaxHopCount "The maximum number of times a message is allowed to ``hop'' before we decide it is in a loop." or discusses a local mis-configuration issue resulting in a local mail delivery loop. It makes me wonder whether I'm missing something quite obvious? Thanks, Wayne
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