Re: howto select outgoing mail server ???
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:59:44PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Apparently, I cannot switch outgoing smtp servers from within mutt.
That is correct. mutt knows nothing about SMTP and just passes
messages off to /usr/bin/sendmail (which is generally a symlink to
exim, qmail, or whatever other MTA is in use on non-sendmail boxes).
> So, I want to figure out how to automate switching outgoing mail servers
> within either exim or qmail?
To pass all outgoing mail through a specific server with exim, you
set it up to use that server as a "smarthost". I don't know of an
easy way that you could swap it in and out without having to modify
exim.conf every time, though.
> I do not fully understand how exim knows to use my qmail server, other
> than the mx record on the internal private dns?
MX records aren't involved in this, since they apply to the mail's
destination, not its origin.
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