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