Usually that means that the remote site that the MX record points to is not
accepting the piece of mail because it doesn't think it should accept mail for
that domain. So the remote system sends it back to the previous MTA which in
turns sends it back to the remote system (because the MX record says so) and
loops about 20 times before giving up.
Sylvain Lapointe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am managing different mailing lists for the two last years and recently (2
> weeks ago) I began to receive some messages back sent to a mailing list
> with this mention :
>
> 554 hop-count exceed.
>
> What does it means exactly? What is a hop in an Email system?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sylvain
>
> ___________________________________________________
> Sylvain Lapointe
> Centre AlphaPlus Centre
> Ressources pour l'éducation des adultes
> Hawkesbury ON K6A 1N3
>
> slapointe@alphaplus.ca
> Page d'accueil: http://alphaplus.ca
>
> ICQ #: 19665941
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