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Re: MTA: usage of smart host



on Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:11:43PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman@dman.ddts.net) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:46:09AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:07:19PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> 
> | > I have my system set up to connect directly, except for a few domains
> | > which I've found won't take my connection.  For those I route them
> | > through a smarthost.
> | 
> | I might get around to doing that sometime.  Not really a priority, though.
> 
> For exim 4 (needs a little tweaking for exim 3) :
> 
> --- exim.conf, routers section ---
> smarthost_domains:
>     driver = manualroute
>     transport = remote_smtp
> 
>     # The domains accepted by this router are keys in the db.
>     domains = lsearch;/etc/exim/smarthost.domains
>     # Once the router accepts the domain, all such domains are routed
>     # through martha.
>     route_list = * smtp.frontiernet.net byname
> 
> --- smarthost.domains ---
> colondot.net :
> earthling.net :
> email.com :
> iname.com :
> schoolmail.com :

Hmm...

Idly curious:  would it be possible to set up a retry rule such that a
delivery attempt that was blocked by a host would be resubmitted via the
smarthost?

Peace.

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