Too many hops..

[jackfiled]

The original message was received at Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:58:36 +0900 (KST) from localhost [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

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554 5.0.0 Too many hops 28 (25 max): from via localhost, to


As above, what is the problem we have?
what's the solution you are able to give ?
any tip is available.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

1) are you able to send email to this address from another server?

2) are you able to send email from your server to other addresses [hotmail, for example?]

[jackfiled]

help@jbplaza.com cannot send or receive email either.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

As far as I see, MX record for jbplaza.com just down.

[Chris Saunderson]

You appear to have a mail loop on the local host. Check the users .forward to see whether they're doing something strange and also /etc/aliases to see whether there are any loops defined.

[jackfiled]

Thanks for all your reply, but I finally made it.
it had a file something wrong, sendmail.cw.
Sendmail.cw did not contain jbplaza.com so
I modified it and inserted jbplaza.com in it.

[Steven E. Protter]

I have gotten the same problem mailing to cityofchicago.org

I honestly believe, based on my experience that its the target server at fault.

I will run another test when I get home, but unless outlook can send and linux can not, I believe the problem is external.

Good diagnostics:

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 help@jbplaza.com
type some text

.


This will get you enough enformation to run a traceroute. Assuming it doesn't slam into some DOS barrier and stop, you can see if there really are 28 hops from here to there.

The second diagnostic is a traceroute to the target mail server. To try and verify my theory, check your maillog after doing this send. Is the bounce coming from THEIR server or is your server complaining about hops. If its your server, you can fix that.

SEP

[jackfiled]

Steven E Protter!
Good information Thanks..
May I ask a question ?
what is that mean?
sendmail -v -d8 -d38 id@domain.com
-v, -d8, -d38..?

[Peter Jenssen]

-v turns on verbose mode,
-d sets debug flags.
(8 get MX records for domain,
38 apply function to all symbol table entries)



Peter Jenssen

[jackfiled]

Thank you Peter..