SMTP routing loop (Maximum hop count exceeded.)

[Sam Carleton]

I am just setting up my Domino mail server and am unable to figure out
how to setup the incoming mail. I am getting a "Maximum hop count
exceeded. Message probably in a routing loop."

I am running Domino 5.0.4. Currently it is behine a firewall and not
accessable from the Internet. I have another SMTP mail server behind
the firewall, too. I am using a 3-rd party mail program to send a
message through the other SMTP mail server to the Domino server.
There are 218 log messages generated, most of them the messages are
going around and around in the domino server:

SMTP Server: 192.168.0.1 connected
SMTP Server: Message 00523028 received
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.1 disconnected. 1 message[s] received
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 connected
Router: Transferring mail to domain domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM [192.168.0.5]) via SMTP
SMTP Server: Message 00523086 received
Router: Transferred 1 messages to domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM) via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 disconnected. 1 message[s] received
Router: Message 00523028 transferred to sunflower.domain.COM for
scar...@domain.com via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 connected
Router: Transferring mail to domain domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM [192.168.0.5]) via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 connected
Router: Transferring mail to domain domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM [192.168.0.5]) via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 disconnected. 0 message[s] received
Router: No messages transferred to domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM) via SMTP
SMTP Server: Message 005230F1 received
Router: Transferred 1 messages to domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM) via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 disconnected. 1 message[s] received
Router: Message 00523086 transferred to sunflower.domain.COM for
scar...@domain.com via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 connected
Router: Transferring mail to domain domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM [192.168.0.5]) via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 connected
Router: Transferring mail to domain domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM [192.168.0.5]) via SMTP
SMTP Server: 192.168.0.5 disconnected. 0 message[s] received
Router: No messages transferred to domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM) via SMTP
SMTP Server: Message 0052315B received

This goes on and on until I get this:

Router: No messages transferred to domain.COM (host
sunflower.domain.COM) via SMTP
Router: Error transferring message 005238B5 via SMTP to
sunflower.domain.COM Maximum hop count exceeded. Message probably in
a routing loop.

I am 100% clueless as to what to do. Any thoughts?

Sam

[sudhakar Marampelly]

DO you have a forwarding address for the recipient user directing to
the same mail id. the problem u are facing is the router is unable to
deliver to a particular address. pl check the recipient's mail id and
forward address field?
hope this helps..

nos...@miltonstreet.com (Sam Carleton) wrote in message news:<52373b4f.02090...@posting.google.com>...

[Karma Yoga]

"sudhakar Marampelly" <maramp...@bharatmail.com> wrote in message
news:50e5f826.02090...@posting.google.com...

I am facing the same exact problem. I have a R5 server with SMTP in one box
and linux/sendmail in another.I can send outgoing mail to the linux box but
not the opposite. Connecting directly to the SMTP port and sending the mail
manually (or with a script) works.Crude ,but it was ok since I only wanted
to send some autogenerated mails from a script.

I did the following:

# cat > /tmp/bleh
mail from: foobah
rcpt to: luser1
data

This is an autogenerated message

.
quit
^D
# cat /tmp/bleh | nc domino 25

[Karma Yoga]

"sudhakar Marampelly" <maramp...@bharatmail.com> wrote in message
news:50e5f826.02090...@posting.google.com...

What the !@$!@$ do you mean by saying mail ID? The problem with Domino and
generally IBM products and whatnot is that they generate tons of new
buzzwords that generally remind people of sth but in reality refer to
completely different definitions/etc.

What should I put in the forwarding address?
username@DOMINODOMAIN? user...@host.domain.com or username@DOMINOSERVER?

JohnSmith@Acme@External doesnt give me ANY clue.

Sorry for the heat of this post ,nothing in personal whatsoever ,its just
that when I see a GUI that has the label "Ports" I generally expect that
this has something to do with services/ports not with PROTOCOLS!
(Cough..cough..)