Ours was set to 50 years ago, and we renamed our internal hops to X-Received to avoid issues with external receivers with stricter limits.
The number of hops for most consumer mail isn't high, but enterprise messages can have some really extended hops if it goes through nested mailing lists and multiple third party relays for various services. Brandon On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM Kelsey Cummings via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > Greetings, we've been seeing some issues in our mail infrastructure with > regular users hitting >25 hops on messages and I'm wondering if there's > a general consensus that the old default of 25 is too low given modern > mail flows. > > Have any of you had to increase it? Any one know what major ESP's have > it limited to? > > -- > kelsey.cummi...@sonic.com sonic.net, inc. > System Architect 2260 Apollo Way > 707.522.1000 <(707)%20522-1000> Santa Rosa, > CA > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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