On Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:25:15 +0200, you said:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 11:31:35 CDT Marty Hoag <[log in to unmask]> said:
>
> >1. What is a good setting for the number of hops allowed? I think
> > sendmail defaults to 17 these days.
>
> I think this dates back to the 1980s, anyway it is ridiculously low for
> today's network. About 4 years ago a lot of TCP/IP products had to be
I addressed this same problem to Eric Allman a few days ago. He agreed that
the Sendmail default of 17 is too low - I asked him for 32 or so, but it looks
like Sendmail 8.7 will ship with a default of 25.
/Valdis