On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:58:01AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
| % continue to use 'bounce' since the list of Received: headers is
| % getting too long with this mail server.
|
| That's really odd. Your mail server should let a message go through a
| million hops if it has to.
It's a crude, but effective, loop detection mechanism (mentioned in
RFC 821 as well). When the MTA sees what it thinks is an excessive
number of Received: headers it figures a mail loop has occured and
bounces the message instead.
-D
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