EXIM - fallback to smarthost

[R. McFarlane]

At 08:44 AM 10/6/2005, Gary Stainburn, had this to say :

>Hi folks.
>
>My live server is Exim 3, but I'm in the process of updating to a new
>box running Exim 4.
>
>I don't have a smarthost set and SMTP delivery is set direct as I prefer
>this for both performance and logging reasons.
>
>However, I have just chaanged ISPs and for some reason my IP address
>range is on an RBL.
>
>Is it possible with both versions to configure it so that it tries to
>deliver directly, but fall back to my ISP's SMTP relay if it fails.
>
>Thanks
>
>Gary


         Exim does have this feature. Check the docs for the syntax. I had 
set it up once but it did not work as I liked. I wanted it to do the same 
thing you do but for whatever reason I could not make it work. Maybe you 
will have better luck than I did. :)


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R. McFarlane

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