shubhendu rearranged electrons thusly:
> in a newly installed linux RH6.2 there is something wrong in mailing
> system
> the problem is when a'm sending mail from another host to this new host
> mail reaches to its mailq but cant get delivered and returned back to
> sending host this goes on for certain no times, after a no of trials the
> sender gets a message that because of TOO MANY HOSTS ( max 25 ) the mail
> cant be sent
You mean "too many hops" ... this is the old problem of a broken local delivery
mechanism (maybe two .forwards talking to each other).
RTFM at http://www.sendmail.org/faq/ - this, and local config error are among
the top 5 FAQs there.
-s
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