On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:19:16PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Jay G. Scott: > > overlook a "too many hops" notice. > > > > I've seen these at my site before, they've been going on for years, > > but they're still rare. Maybe 4-6/year. I checked all the "offending" > > addresses and they came back as deliverable. So I believe these > > are transient effects due to occasional spikes in the machine load > > (the machine's load is low with occasional spikes -- but the spikes > > occur several times/day last time I checked). > > > > seem reasonable? > > Hmm.. If the hop-count increases due to overload then some system > is mis-configured and sending mail in a loop. > > This should be easy to diagnose by looking for a repeating pattern > with the hostnames in Received: headers.
thanks. i'll go do my homework. j. > > Wietse -- Jay Scott 512-835-3553 g...@arlut.utexas.edu Head of Sun Support, Sr. System Administrator Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224 University of Texas at Austin
