On Tue 14 Oct, Jim Gottlieb wrote:
> Tired of all the bugs that have crept into smail, I have dived into
> exim. I could use a little help with the transition, though. This is
> version 1.71 under Solaris 2.5.1.
>
> A few comments/questions:
>
> The manual says that for configuration options "If the option name is
> specified on its own, the switch is turned on", but when I try that:
> relay_domains # Don't relay to/from arbitrary domains
> I get
> "=" expected after relay_domains in line 114
The relay_domains is not so much an option but a data list, hence
exim is looking for something like,
relay_domains = "adomain.to.relay.co.uk:\
anotherdomain.torelay.com:\
lsearch;/opt/exim/etc/big-file-of-domains"
If you do want to relay for all domains then taking out all references to
'relay' in the config file should do that (I think..). As someone who
used to run zmailer 'open' like this it is a REALLY bad idea...
> How do I deal with MXs pointing to the local host? I see the "self"
> variable, and I tried adding it as follows:
local_domains = "my.domain.on.this.machine.com:\
otherdomain.on.this.machine.co.uk"
And exim kinda works it all out..
> lookuphost:
> driver = lookuphost,
> self = fail_soft,
> transport = remote_smtp;
>
> but that didn't take care of all cases. I think I need another router
> that deals with hosts on the local network (like forcepaths in smail),
> that can then route doing a simple non-MX lookup, but I'm not sure how
> to set this up. Something to do with those smtp driver options, but
> where do I specify those? There is no driver configuration section.
> Do I do it in the routers or the transports or ??? Specifically, I
> think I need to define a transport using gethostbyname=true, but
> wherever I try specifying this, I get an error. Where does this go?
I think the thing here is that exim wants to be explicately told
what doins are local - where as you are hoping to get it to juts
belive the DNS.. dunno if you can do that - Phillip time ;-)
Hope I have understood you right and not just talked crap ;-) Not
sure about the UUCP stuff...
Cheers,
aid
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