Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:35:53PM +1000, mdevin@ozemail.com.au wrote:
...
> Now I am confused too.
The original poster looked for a way to choose a `smart host' based
on the *sender's* address, were you normally choose the host based
on the receiver's address.
> So I don't understand why you can't just send mail directly. From what
He want's to use the spool and retry capabilities of his ISP for good
reasons.
...
> However, I think that exim by default will continue to send the message
> for 4 days before giving up. So long as you connect several times
> within these 4 days and flush exims que each time then there is a very
> good chance the mail will get sent. I have a script in the
Only if the destination machine is on the net too in those few moments
that you are. Imagion that you are to send mail to my mail server
directly, then it's quit likely that, though I'm on the net for
atleast 12 hours a day, you still miss me because my daytime differs
from yours, living on the other side of the world and all that. Were
you to use your ISP's mail server, changes would go up remarkably,
just because that machine is on the net during your nighttime / my
daytime. Best would be if we both used our ISP's servers, then the
mail would get delivered instantaniously, so less resources used.
...
> I haven't experienced any problems with sending mail except on one
> occasion when my message was blocked because my ipaddress was black
> listed in the RBL of someones SMTP server - or something like that? I
> think this was because I am on a dynamic IP address and some other user
> may have previously attempted to abuse the server or send some spam?
There is a tendency to block *all* dynamic IP addresses whether they
were used for spam or not. So this blocking probably had nothing to do
with the previous user of that IP address spamming, it might as well
have been a generic block.
--
groetjes, carel
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