On Tuesday April 11 2006 23:17, Kelson wrote:
> mouss wrote:
> > - multiple "internal" hops at either sender or receiver (I have N
> > Received headers added by my own MTA. and for mail fetched from an MSP,
> > there are still more).
>
> Actually, if I'm reading this right, it's the number of I
Kelson wrote:
> Actually, if I'm reading this right, it's the number of IP hops
> between the sending server and the receiving server -- in other
> words, how many lines you'd see if you were on the receiving server
> and ran traceroute to the sending MTA.
Ah... that makes much more sense :)
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Am Dienstag, 11. April 2006 22:28 schrieb mouss:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > mouss wrote:
> >> I would conjecture that most legitimate mail has two "real" hops
> >> (the sending MTA and the receiving MTA).
> >
> > That would be one hop.
>
> depends on how you count:
>
> MUA -> my MTA1 -> y
mouss wrote:
- multiple "internal" hops at either sender or receiver (I have N Received
headers added by my own MTA. and for mail fetched from an MSP, there are
still more).
Actually, if I'm reading this right, it's the number of IP hops between
the sending server and the receiving server -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mouss wrote:
I would conjecture that most legitimate mail has two "real" hops (the
sending MTA and the receiving MTA).
That would be one hop.
depends on how you count:
MUA -> my MTA1 -> your MTA -> your mailbox
that's two MTAs, so that's two hops. I prefe
mouss wrote:
> I would conjecture that most legitimate mail has two "real" hops (the
> sending MTA and the receiving MTA).
That would be one hop.
