Mark Goodge:
> I have a slightly odd problem, in that my main outbound mail server is
> seemingly being blocked by one of the UK's major budget web/mail hosts.
> My postfix logs show things like this:
>
> status=deferred (lost connection with athena.hosts.co.uk[85.233.160.20]
> while receiving the initial server greeting)
...
> I've put in a workaround using transport maps to simply hand off mail
> for affected domains to my other mail server (which normally handles
> inbound mail), and from there it gets through OK. But that requires an
> entry in the transport table for each affected domain, and I keep
> encountering new ones - some of which I may only ever need to mail once
> or twice and never again!
Why not use IP-level redirect.
redirect 85.233.160.20 address-of-other-server
Wietse