deferred mode in exim

John Griffiths john at capmon.com
Sun Aug 11 12:09:36 EST 2002


it turned out it WAS possible to have my cake and eat it too, no need to
defer mail, just had to comment out:

#receiver_try_verify = true

but thanks for putting me on the right track

(well it seems to be working right this minute anyway)

John

At 01:11 PM 8/10/02 +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>Not sure what exactly you're trying to acheive but maybe you're looking for
>the queue_smtp_domains option? Alternativly putting -odqs on the command
>line?
>
>On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:19:01PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm trying to get a woody box to send email in deferred mode (we have a
>> number of subscribers who pay to recieve our material but on any given
>> mailout there will be a couple who's DNS server are down delaying the
process)
>> 
>> the outgoing mailserver is behind a firewall so it won't be a target for
>> spam relayers.
>> 
>> as I understand it a line like:
>> 
>> deferred:
>>   driver = deferred
>>   transport = remote_smtp
>> 
>> ahead of
>> 
>> lookuphost:
>>   driver = lookuphost
>>   transport = remote_smtp
>> 
>> in /etc/exim/exim.conf
>> 
>> might do the trick,
>> 
>> but can anyone advise otherwise?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> John
>> 
>
>-- 
>Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
>> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
>> arithmetic and those that can't.
>
>



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