On Sat, 1 Apr 1995 01:42:29 +0200 Eric said:
>Peers have always used long headers internally, so this is hardly a new
>problem.
The new part, of course, is that these long internal headers will now be
visible to end-user systems by default, so peer linkages that have been
working fine now start creating delivery problems. Oh well, it was time
to redesign/re-evaluate the peering anyway.
> The default sendmail hop limit of 16 is just plain and simple
>broken. It breaks even some sendmail-based redistribution lists. With
>people reading their mail on a PC-based mail system sitting behind a
>firewall it doesn't take all that long to accumulate 16 hops.
I agree with all this part completely. I wouldn't have brought it up myself
had Bill's message hit me after a bout of handling hop-count bounces.
Sorry to have bothered everyone.
--Mark