On 24/10/2011 02:20, Dave Lugo wrote:
Well, since you supply hosts with route_data, there is no point in those
other two options, is there? (I assume you have some smarthost router,
or a dnslookup router, for stuff you're not static routing )
Thank you for the clarification, I did not initially understand that the
information was passed between the two. I have removed it from the
transport and everything seems to be working fine now.
Incidentally, I thought of a couple of queries with regards to
improving the "staticroutes" setup as follows:
1) If I was to put multiple entries for a domain in the staticroutes
file, will Exim try each of them in order until one succeeds?
Yes, if you omit (I believe) hosts_randomize from the router. Check
the docs for the correct syntax for multiple destinations, I forget
what it
is at the moment.
I've dug up chapter 20 of the docs which says the following format in
the file should work so I will set that up later:
dict.ref.example: mail-1.ref.example:mail-2.ref.example
2) The transport specifically uses port 25. I was wondering if this
could be a default setting but over-ridden if the staticroutes file
contained a line such as:
domain.com: 1.1.1.1:26
I've only had to use an alternate port once when someone's broadband
was down. They had a backup freephone dialup but port 25 was blocked
on it. I had to write an entirely separate staticroutes2 to use an
alternate port back then. It would be nice to have an easy option
though!
You could probably do it with some string manipulation in the router
stanza, but remember that ':' is the default list separator. Perhaps
someone else can offer a more informed opinion on this. The only time
I ever run smtp on a non-standard port is when I run a 'test' copy of
my local exim on port 26, for trying out new stuff on my interal network.
Well I know that you can supply ports in route_list using double colons
(1.1.1.1::26). I wonder if it is as simple as removing the port = 25
line and using that syntax in /etc/staticroutes
That part is probably something I copied way back when I was getting
started and didn't really comprehend how it actually worked.
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