[Mailman-Users] maximum hop count exceeded

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu May 27 08:38:48 CEST 2010


Grant Taylor writes:
 > On 05/26/10 02:35, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > > It fixes it for the Mailman host, yes.  It's still wasting some 
 > > bandwidth and may indicate more serious problems on an intermediate 
 > > host.  Typically it's not a problem at either the last hop or the 
 > > apparent sender, so quite painful to trace in the absence of headers.
 > 
 > I'm not sure that we are talking about exactly the same thing.

No we weren't.  I didn't understand that the policy of stripping
headers on entry to Mailman proposed in earlier messages had been
transmuted to presume an archive of pre-stripped messages.


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