On Sat, 1 Apr 1995 01:42:29 +0200 Eric said: >Peers have always used long headers internally, so this is hardly a new >problem. The new part, of course, is that these long internal headers will now be visible to end-user systems by default, so peer linkages that have been working fine now start creating delivery problems. Oh well, it was time to redesign/re-evaluate the peering anyway. > The default sendmail hop limit of 16 is just plain and simple >broken. It breaks even some sendmail-based redistribution lists. With >people reading their mail on a PC-based mail system sitting behind a >firewall it doesn't take all that long to accumulate 16 hops. I agree with all this part completely. I wouldn't have brought it up myself had Bill's message hit me after a bout of handling hop-count bounces. Sorry to have bothered everyone. --Mark