Mail bounce "too many hops" and deferred to unknown host when forwarding to external bookkeeping address of a client

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I had the same problem at some stage. Here are notes to myself from then:
"I have reconfigured mail forwarding to use Usermin not Virtualmin because that uses Spamassassin (Virtualmin doesn’t, says a forum person). Forwarding works BUT also generates “too many hops”. My fix is to:

  • Use the virtual server owner
  • Add additional email addresses
  • Deliver to mailbox
  • In mailbox Usermin, check [Y] Yes, forward to @gmail.

Additional info you didn’t ask for: before this, I was having problems with gmail rejecting SOME of the emails with 550-5.7.1 low reputation.
I fixed this by rewriting the headers, see this thread:

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