On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:39:51PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> I use my laptop both at home and at work. I've been completely unable
> to send email to a few mailing lists for some reason, and have narrowed
> it down to Exim complaining about retry timeouts connecting to their
> mail servers. When I switched to using my ISP's smart relay, everything
> started working properly.
>
> My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP
> server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change
> settings when I go from one place to the other?
I have this set-up that allows me to change smarthost "on-the-fly":
/etc/exim/exim.conf (in the routers section):
-----8<----
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* ${lookup{smarthost}lsearch{/var/state/exim.smarthost}{$value}{no.smart.host}} bydns_a"
end
-----8<----
which basically makes exim read the file /var/state/exim.smarthost - it
is expected to contain a line e.g.
smarthost smtp.your-isp.net
This makes it easy for scripts to change smarthost:
echo smarthost smtp.work.com > /var/state/exim.smarthost
in e.g. /etc/pcmcia/network.opts - start_fn() and similar places.
HTH
PS: Would the original author of the above exim config please stand up
and receive the beverage of choice?
PS: Is /var/state the right place for such a file? /etc is a candidate
too, but having programs automagically write to things in /etc is
possibly evil, although it is generally accepted for e.g.
/etc/resolv.conf...
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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