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Re: howto select outgoing mail server ???



	I am not quite certain how to do this in qmail, but I know it
is possible in Sendmail which I use... In sendmail I can monkey with the
mailertable and should then be able to setup an entry for those
domains/hosts I want to send through the ISP to set them to 

<receiver domain>:	esmtp:<isp'smail server hostname>

	This allows you to override the normal routing... I haven't
test'd this for this situation but I do make use of mailertable entries
in LDAP to route mail from the external MX servers to internal mail
servers within networks I maintain using Sendmail... How to do the same
in qmail I wouldn't know where to begin to look but might give you or
someone else an idea...

	Regards,
	Jeremy

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:59:44PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> I have been using the following setup for many months and functioning as
> expected:
> 
> 	cablemodem on attbi.com
> 	qmail on internal private network
> 	exim on local box
> 	mutt on local box
> 
> So, when I send a normal email, such as this one, I compose in mutt,
> send it through exim on this local box, which uses qmail on another box
> to send to the intended recipient.  This is my preferred email process,
> since my qmail is considerably more reliable than mail.attbi.com.
> 
> My problem arises when I want to email recipients on networks (e.g.,
> rr.com, tera-byte.com, &c.) that do not accept my email unless sent
> through my isp's mail server.
> 
> Apparently, I cannot switch outgoing smtp servers from within mutt.
> 
> So, I want to figure out how to automate switching outgoing mail servers
> within either exim or qmail?
> 
> I do not fully understand how exim knows to use my qmail server, other
> than the mx record on the internal private dns?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
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> 
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