Re: SMTP transport with no host set

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Horne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: SMTP transport with no host set
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, John Horne wrote:

> I had previously set "hosts=plymouth.ac.uk" in the smtp transport, but as far
> as I can tell I shouldn't need this.


You don't need this only if the addresses that use the transport come
with their own set of hosts. This can happen only if they come from a
domainlist or lookuphost router, which find hosts to attach to
addresses.

> Running exim (1.71) with debug level 9 doesn't seem to give any hint as to
> what's going on (to me that is!). A typical mail message will pass through an
> aliasfile director to get to the transport - the transport is explicitly set
> in the director.


Right - so there's nowhere it can get the hosts from unless you specify
them on the transport.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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