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