To summarize: there are two kinds of hops:

1) those that involve the atomic unit of the Internet: IP packets
   that travel over the ether perhaps never to reach their target
   host

2) mail messages that pass through too many mail host proceses,
   either because of a loop or other misconfigurations.

The former is 'caught' via the router code, the latter by
typical SENDMAIL-type configs.

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