Subject: Problems with missing messages from IETF-KRB-WG

From: "Douglas E. Engert" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:03:41 -0500

A number of people at Compaq and Microsoft may not have received
all of the messages from the ietf-krb-wg list. It appears their mail
systems may have a limit of 15 "Received:" headers on a mail message. 

The sender of one of these was from Microsoft, which added 5 
hops, one of which looks like a virus scanner. The ANL site added 6,
hops past spam and virus scanners and the majordomo mail list program.
The message as then sent to the list where it was forwarded 5 more times
before some mailer hit limit, and bounced it back to me. 

I have asked our mail people to look into the number of hops
we are adding internally. Other site might want to ask thier 
mail people if there is a limit.

But this maybe come a more general problem, as one popular
mail system has a default limit of 15 hops. 

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 Douglas E. Engert  <[email-masked]>
 Argonne National Laboratory
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