A. Abd-Allah:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;bob@gmail.comAction: failedStatus:
5.0.0Remote-MTA: smtp;MAILGW1.OURDOMAIN.COMDiagnostic-Code: X-Notes;
Error transferring to MAILGW1.OURDOMAIN.COM; Maximum hop count
exceeded. Message probably in a routing loop.
When a mail server receives mail via
and then seeing the effect.
Thank you again.
Subject: Re: Unable to relay via postfix ... but telnet works...?
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:52:41 -0500
From: wie...@porcupine.org
A. Abd-Allah:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;bob@gmail.comAction: failedStatus
A. Abd-Allah:
Dr. Wietse,
Thank you for your valuable time, not just for this question, but
for the entire postfix product.
If I understood you correctly, increasing the hop count limit may
help in this case. I only see 1 or 2 headers that are being added,
but I am not sure. I can try
Dr. Wietse,
Thank you again for your time. I have been an off-and-on-again user of Postfix
for many years, and it is a real honor (and surprise!) to get support directly
from its originator.
The hop-count limit is reached in the REMOTE mail server.
I suspected as much, but I wasn't sure.
