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In the last mail John Asher said:
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> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eric Thomas wrote:
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> > >Is this 17 (or 18) a sendmail limit? Can it be configured?
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> > Yes to both questions.
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> > >(If LISTSERVs need this many hops, perhaps the sendmail folks should
> > >raise this number so that all it catches are true loops.)
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> > Yeah, I think they listened and then say "Ok, we'll raise it to 25". I
> > raised it to 40 on the machines I manage.
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> Is this not more of a problem at the receiving end? For LISTSERV systems
> where the subscribers are all at one site, reconfiguring the sendmail is
> a viable option, but if the system serves recipients at multiple sites,
> then it is not really an option (my system has subscribers at around 900
> sites in 87 countries).
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> I assume that the limit is to prevent mail loops, and I do not imagine
> many e-mail postmasters reconfiguring their sendmail to suit a LISTSERV
> maintainer from another site.
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> John
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They will start having problems from other points if they leave the hop
count at 17. We changed that very quickly and this was not motivated by
a LISTSERV site. Winpmail is a great one for "using" too many
tracefields.
Alan Thew
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