Aol Mail Error Too Many Hops
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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, error too many hops (in reply to end of data command) it is transferred to and through several computers before it gets to 554 error too many hops its destination. Each transfer between computers is called a hop. The "too many hops" error message means there too many hops error message are too many transfers between you and your recipient. To prevent mail forwarding loops, most mail delivery systems limit the number of hops they will process before stopping a
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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 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 mail loop too many hops 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 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. Error 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 returned mail too many hops instructions related to Google Apps, see the Google Apps Help
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Center. For instructions related to Google Apps Vault, see the Vault Help Center. Issue: Notifications,
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Alerts, and Message Center deliveries are quarantined. Symptoms: Messages bounce with the SMTP error code "554 Too many hops -psmtp" Resolution: There is a loop https://kb.iu.edu/d/beha in the delivery logic for the domain. The most likely source of this type of issue is that the message security service always checks the DNS MX entries for a machine name before delivery and routes mail to the highest priority MX record. Depending on DNS configuration, this could cause the https://support.google.com/postini/answer/139416?hl=en security service to deliver to its own servers. This solution applies to all e-mails which are sent from the message security service's outgoing mail servers: Welcome Notifications Junk Email Notifications Alias Creation Confirmations All Quarantined Emails delivered from the Message Center Wireless Activation Notifications (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: Select the email config from the Choose Org pull-down list. Go to Inbound Servers > Delivery Manager. Click Edit in the dark gray bar above the graph. Look at the configured mail server (e.g. mail.mydomain.com). 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 the message security service such as: mail.mydomain.com. 10M IN
enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. This discussion is locked https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1819260?tstart=0 hasmit Level 1 (0 points) Q: Possible Security flaw or virus/malware infection resulting in bogus Mail I noticed last evening that I received several different types of delivery problem return messages from nearly everyone in my Mail address book, even though I had never sent out original messages to them.I suspect that some virus, too many etc. must have sent a message to everyone in my Address Book.I am unsure of how/why this happened.I have included the text of several such reply messages, and can forward the messages themselves.It appears the message sent out by the suspected malware/software virus was titled "Happy Christmas! Good everyone!", based upon the delivery problem too many hops return messages text. They also were apparently transmitted about 17:15 EST on 6 Dec, even though I was not using the computer anytime close to this time.I am unsure of the offending culprit/mechanism in this problem.Please help! I have found nothing online regarding any similar problems being experienced by others.I am running Mac OSX 10.5.5 on an iMac G4 17", 1 GHz, 2GB RAM.............Sample message 1 follows: From: MAILER-DAEMON@blv-av-01.boeing.com Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details Date: December 6, 2008 7:32:00 PM GMT-05:00 To: email removedThe original message was received at Sat, 6 Dec 2008 16:30:41 -0800 (PST)from xch-nwbh-10.nw.nos.boeing.com [130.*] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----