mails bounnced with 554 too many hops

[geeta at cdfd.org.in]

Hi all,

with all your advices included the mail of virus scanner in DS smart relay 
host and forwarded the mails to mailgateway machine which is the virus 
scanner. 

But mails are bounnced back as pasted below.

But if I telnet to mailgateway system through port 25 and sending the mails 
are delivered. 

Please help to solve this probs

Subject:Returned mail too many hops from <geeta at ww.cdfd.org.in> via mailgateway.cdfd.org.in, 
to 
<pavi_here at yahoo.co.in> Parts/Attachments:
   1 Shown 8 lines Text
   2 Shown 276 bytes Message, "Delivery Status"
   3 Shown 5.6 KB Message, "with SAV"
3.1 Shown 1 lines Text ---------------------------------------- The 
original message was received at Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:55:09 -0700 (PDT) from 
mailgateway.cdfd.org.in [172.16.0.10]
   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<pavi_here at yahoo.co.in>
   ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 Too many hops 27 (25
max): from <geeta at www.cdfd.org.in> via mailgateway.cdfd.org.in, to
<pavi_here at yahoo.co.in>
    [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; www.cdfd.org.in
Received-From-MTA: DNS; mailgateway.cdfd.org.in Arrival-Date: Mon, 5 Apr 
2004 15:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; pavi_here at yahoo.co.in 
Action: failed Status: 5.4.6 Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:55:09 
-0700 (PDT)

Thanks
Geetha Thanu










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