mouss: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:53:19AM -0700, marintech wrote: > > > >> I'm having a heck of a time trying to get inbound mail to work from my new > >> Spam filtering provider. The problem I see is that when my mail server gets > >> the mail from Spam Soap there is something in the header that it thinks > >> made > >> too many hops. > > > > You've likely created a routing loop between your server and the > > spam filtering service. Don't forward already filtered mail back > > to the filtering service. > > > > Or you have a content filter loop on the local machine, with mail > > that passes a content filter re-injected right back into that > > local filter. > > > > or there is a "Delivered-To" header issue.
No. The "Too many hops" error means that the message was forwarded too many times. Postfix counts the number of Received: message headers, and triggers the error when the count exceeds the main.cf:hopcount_limit setting. The default limit is 50. Wietse