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does the "too many hops" error mean when an email message I send fails? When you send an email message over a network, it is transferred to and through several computers before it gets to its destination. smtp 554 5.4 6 too many hops Each transfer between computers is called a hop. The "too many hops" error message means
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there are too many transfers between you and your recipient. To prevent mail forwarding loops, most mail delivery systems limit the number
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of hops they will process before stopping a delivery attempt. There is little you can do to correct a "too many hops" mail return. If you think a mail forwarding loop is causing the error, you
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can contact the person with the loop through a method other than the email address causing the error. If you know a mail forwarding loop is not causing the error, ask your system administrator to increase the maximum number of hops allowed. Mail forwarding loops A mail forwarding loop can occur when you set up mail forwarding on two accounts so that the first account forwards all its mail to the second, and reason 554 5.4.6 too many hops the second account forwards mail back to the first. If your mail delivery system had no limit on hops, your message could be bounced back and forth between these two accounts indefinitely. Frequently, when a message you sent returns to you with the "too many hops" error message, it means the recipient has set up a mail forwarding loop. Distribution lists If you are an owner of a distribution list and your list gets the "too many hops" error message, you may have more difficulty identifying the sender because the error message typically does not include the exact email address(es) causing the problem. Here is an example of the delivery error message: | ---------- Forwarded message ---------- | Date: 11 Jul 2003 15:28:10 -0500 | From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
Contact us Having Spam Issues? Go here for troubleshooting steps. 554 Too Many Hops: psmtp indicates mail loop This Help Center article is for Postini, a suite of Google services that's now discontinued. If you're searching for instructions related to Google Apps, see the Google Apps Help Center. For instructions related smtp 554 error relay access denied to Google Apps Vault, see the Vault Help Center. DESCRIPTION:Notifications, Alerts, and Message error too many hops (in reply to end of data command) Center deliveries are quarantined. Messages bounce with the SMTP error code "554 Too many hops". SOLUTION: There is a too many hops in email loop in the delivery logic for the domain. The most likely source of this type of issue is that Postini always checks the DNS MX entries for a machine name before https://kb.iu.edu/d/beha delivery and routes mail to the highest priority MX record, depending on DNS configuration, this could route Postini to deliver to Postini. This solution applies to all e-mails which are sent from the Postini cluster's outgoing mail servers: - Welcome Notifications - Junk Email Notifications - Alias Creation Confirmations - All Quarantined Emails delivered from the Message Center - Wireless - Activation Notifications https://support.google.com/postini/answer/1371403?hl=en (External, Internal) - Alerts - Messages delivered from spool. Check the Server Configuration and DNS MX entries to ensure that there is no MX entry for the fully qualified machine name for the mail server: 1) Select the email config from the Choose Org pull-down list. 2) Go to Inbound Servers > Delivery Manager. 3) Click Edit in the dark gray bar above the graph. 4) Look at the configured mail server (e.g. mail.mydomain.com). 5) Do a dig on the MX entries for the mail server. (On UNIX/Linux, the command is: dig mail.mydomain.com mx) If the dig returns MX entries pointing to Postini such as: mail.mydomain.com. 10M IN MX 100 mail.mydomain.com.sNa1.psmtp.com. mail.mydomain.com. 10M IN MX 200 mail.mydomain.com.sNa2.psmtp.com. mail.mydomain.com. 10M IN MX 300 mail.mydomain.com.sNb1.psmtp.com. mail.mydomain.com. 10M IN MX 400 mail.mydomain.com.sNb2.psmtp.com. then this is the source of the loop. RFC 821 requires that a SMTP server do an MX record lookup a domain before delivery, and since that MX record points to Postini servers, the message will be delivered from Postini directly back to Postini. To correct this, either: 1) Remove the MX entries for mail.mydomain.com. Entries should already e
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or with the email software you're using? Post your questions and answers here! Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Advanced Search Go to Page... Thread Tools 19 Oct 2005, 08:23 PM #1 llista Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cyberspace Posts: 149 Too many hops error I tried to send an email and it bounced saying that it had too many hops, can anybody tell me what this means? Note: bounced message below: -------------------------------------------- The original message was received at Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:21:51 +0100 (BST) from mail-gateway.****.co.uk [**.1.1.**] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <****@*********.co.uk> (reason: 554 5.4.6 Too many hops) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 5.4.6 Too many hops 26 (25 max): from