sendmail question

[Hanry Zhou]

The servers on a network are running various versions of "sendmail."
Suppose a user who has accounts on two of those machines accidentally
creates an "alias loop" by setting each system to forward his or her
email to the other.

What is the most likely outcome?

A The message will bounce back and forth a relatively small number of times.

B The message will bounce back and forth only once.

C It will bounce back and forth a fairly large number of times.

D Depends which versions of sendmail these two machines are using.
E The message will bounce back and forth until both systems have crashed

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Roger,

They should bounce until the MaxHopCount parameter is reached (default is 25).

rgds, Robin

[Hanry Zhou]

Robin,

Thank you, but your answer doen't fall into one of options, please only choose A,B,C,D,or E.

Thank,
Roger

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Are you trying to make multiple-choice tests on community users ??

[Steven E. Protter]

The answer is A

the provisio of the prior post is how many times depends on a sendmail parameter.

Default is it will bounce 25 times.

SEP

[Robin Wakefield]

A :)

rgds, Robin

[someone_4]

Robin,
Great answer. And thanks for the info.

Roger,
here is a good link for you.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x015b35a43b46d71190080090279cd0f9,00.html


Richard