On Monday 05 April 2004 11:53, Polarcom Webmaster wrote:
> How does courier recognize host - by name or by IP?
> For example, I'm trying to send mail to rol.ru or online.ru (these severs 
have the same IP addr) with MAXHOST=1 - it doesn't work.
> What else can I do?

It does it by name NOT by ip address.  If you look in the log when you send a 
message you'll see that it lists the "host=" part of the email address.  
That's what courier uses for the "host queue".  So if you are sending mail to 
two different domains (by name) then courier sees them as separate hosts.

I think in order to get around this you'll have to set 

MAXDELS=1

in the module.esmtp file.  Then courier will only deliver one message at a 
time.  Not very efficient, but I can't think of another way to make courier 
do what you want.

If it's just you using this mailserver, then you could try changing how you 
address the mail to users at one host.  So instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" you could 
send it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".  (Assuming that their mailsever accepts 
addresses in this format.)  Then courier will connect to "online.ru" and send 
mail for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".  This way all your mail for online.ru and rol.ru will 
be in the same queue.  Again, not very elegant nor does it scale well.  But 
if it's just you and just a couple of addresses then maybe it would solve 
your problem without slowing all outgoing deliveries down to one at a time.

Jeff Jansen


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