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. Than
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
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
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
Hello,
At work, we've set up a small Linux server with postfix on it, and configured
postfix to use an external SMTP mail server. The related settings in main.cf:
myhostname = scm1.ourdomain.commydestination = scm1.ourdomain.com,
localhostrelayhost = [externalmailer.ourdomain.com]
The external
