In the last mail John Asher said:
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eric Thomas wrote:
>
> > >Is this 17 (or 18) a sendmail limit? Can it be configured?
> >
> > Yes to both questions.
> >
> > >(If LISTSERVs  need this  many hops, perhaps  the sendmail  folks should
> > >raise this number so that all it catches are true loops.)
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> John
>
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