mtaLoopsDetected

A message loop is defined as a situation where the MTA
decides that a given message will never be delivered to
one or more recipients and instead will continue to
loop endlessly through one or more MTAs.  This variable
counts the number of times the MTA has detected such a
situation since MTA initialization. Note that the
mechanism MTAs use to detect loops (e.g., trace field
counting, count of references to this MTA in a trace
field, examination of DNS or other directory information,
etc.), the level at which loops are detected (e.g., per
message, per recipient, per directory entry, etc.), and
the handling of a loop once it is detected (e.g., looping
              
messages are held, looping messages are bounced or sent
to the postmaster, messages that the MTA knows will loop
won't be accepted, etc.) vary widely from one MTA to the
next and cannot be inferred from this variable.

MIB

MTA-MIB

OID

.1.3.6.1.2.1.28.1.1.12

Type

column

Access

readonly

Status

current

Parent

mtaEntry

Table

mtaTable

Siblings

11