Email Delivery Error Too Many Hops
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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 instructions related to Google Apps, see the too many hops 26 (25 max) Google Apps Help Center. For instructions related to Google Apps Vault,
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see the Vault Help Center. Issue: Notifications, Alerts, and Message Center deliveries are quarantined. Symptoms: Messages bounce too many hops (in reply to end of data command) with the SMTP error code "554 Too many hops -psmtp" Resolution: There is a loop in the delivery logic for the domain. The most likely source of this too many hops pmtu 1500 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 security service to deliver to its own servers. This solution applies to all e-mails which are sent from the
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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 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
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 too many hops outlook related to Google Apps, see the Google Apps Help Center. what does too many hops mean For instructions related to Google Apps Vault, see the Vault Help Center. DESCRIPTION:Notifications, Alerts, and
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Message Center deliveries are quarantined. Messages bounce with the SMTP error code "554 Too many hops". SOLUTION: There is a loop in the delivery logic https://support.google.com/postini/answer/139416?hl=en 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 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 https://support.google.com/postini/answer/1371403?hl=en 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 (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.p
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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