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Re: Backup mx and too many hops

From: Adhamh Findlay (afindlayaustin.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 15:38:57 CST


This is postfix 1.1.11 running on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6.

What other information can I provide that will help?

On 1/11/04 2:43 PM, "Wietse Venema" <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:

>> On 1/11/04 1:06 PM, "Wietse Venema" <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Adhamh Findlay:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've got a backup mail server that bounces emails back to the sender with a
>>>> "too many hops" error when the primary is down...
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas on what causes this? I searched through the list and found some
>>>> stuff on this, but nothing that worked for me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is any of the backup MX hosts behind a network address translator
>>> or some other kind of proxy that changes the IP address?
>>>
>>> If the behind-NAT machine runs Postfix 2.0 or later, list the
>>> IP address in its main.cf:proxy_interfaces.
>
> Adhamh Findlay:
>> Nope, the backup MX hosts is even on the same subnet as the primary. Not
>> NAT, or firewall between the two.
>
> No futher support without specific information.
>
> Wietse