Remember, those limits were set in a 286/1200 baud world, but a sane limit should still be observed, 30-50 hops is plenty
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 17:05:38 -0800 Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > 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 > 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 Santa Rosa, >> CA >> _______________________________________________ >> mailop mailing list >> mailop@mailop.org >> https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >> > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop > -- -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. Visit us at http://www.linuxmagic.com @linuxmagic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Wizard IT Company - For More Info http://www.wizard.ca "LinuxMagic" is a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 604-682-0300 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
