Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:43:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Indeed. Once I get my little system going to collect and apply hacks to
> > qmail, I'll probably go ahead and hack the hop count limit DOWN to 16 or
> > so. If it has that many hops I don't want it.
>
> 16 Received lines are reached rather fast:
> Some user deep in the mail hierarchy of a company network sends email to
> a mailing list that delivers to another user also deep in the mail
> hierarchy of an other company network that bounces the mail to some
> user on your system. Not so uncommon, IMHO.
>
> And: qmail e.g. adds usually two Received: lines to each message:
>
> Received: (qmail 98445 invoked from network); 6 Oct 1999 20:57:27 -0000
> Received: from mail.space.net (195.30.0.8)
> by popmail.space.net with SMTP; 6 Oct 1999 20:57:27 -0000
Well, OK, 20 it is.
What specific number would you recommend, without trying to go beyond the
imginable cases?
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