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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 08:53:03 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        peter kok <peter@sweda.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.SC5.4.10.9905210851110.11023-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3743F3CD.BBE3E820@sweda.com.hk>

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On Thu, 20 May 1999, peter kok wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> i received the following from undelivered message
> What is the problem of that?
> what is the meaning of 'Message has exceeded maximum hop count'?

The email has been bouncing thru' too many servers.

> Why does cause it?

Bad config, usually. If you examine the headers of the attached email,
you can see the it's looping back to the same server.

Jonathan Chen
----------------------------------------------------------------------
             "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything,
                                        specialisation is for insects"
> 
> ------ Failure Reasons  --------
> 
> Message has exceeded maximum hop count
> 
> ------- Returned Message --------
> Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by
> stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2  (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP
> id 48256777.0033A564; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:24:06 +0800
> Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by
> stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2  (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP
> id 48256777.00339EE2; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:23:50 +0800
> Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by
> stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2  (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP
> id 48256777.00339501; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:23:24 +0800
> Received: from stl1.swiretravel.com ([128.1.3.1]) by
> stl1.swiretravel.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.2  (600.1 3-26-1998)) with SMTP
> id 48256777.00338BAF; Thu, 20 May 1999 17:23:00 +08



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