On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:17:57PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > hello, > > On 21/07/2009 lee wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? > > > > Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts instead of > > one. You need to look it up in info exim4 or in the PDF manual, but > > afair exim will try hosts on a host list one after another. > > finally it was as simple as listing all smart hosts in a colon seperated > list.
Yes, that is a hostlist. You can also make it so that outgoing mail is routed via a particular smarthost depending on, for example, to which domain the mail is sent. > i do think that the configuration facilities have great advantages over > plain conffile editing for unexperienced users. but they're not always > an option for complicated setups. > > in my case the facility does exactly what I would like it to do: it > takes the colon-seperated smarthost list and gives it as argument to the > rout_list in the smarthost manualroute. How did it solve the problem of authenticating with the smarthosts? You're not using open relays, are you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org