On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 01:54:23PM +0000, graeme vetterlein via Exim-users
wrote:
> However, tracking the original message down, it was from IBM and contains e.g.
>
> *29 matches for "Received" in buffer:
> 1670514307.H745399P3100673.ybox.xxx *
>
> and they all appear legitimate** , it really did pass through 29 servers !
An impressive hop count, did it go through mailing lists and then get
forwarded from a user's portable email address (an alumni alias or
similar) to their current actual mailbox?
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:13:28AM +0100, Heiko Schlichting via Exim-users
wrote:
> That's hard to answer. The following is set on our servers:
>
> $ exim -bP received_headers_max
> received_headers_max = 50
FWIW, this (50) matches the Postfix default:
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#hopcount_limit
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