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