> I have a situation in which the exim system must punt most incoming mail
> to a 'smartuser' director. The system to which mail is punted is an AS/400
> that is not known to the Internet.
>
> Because it's an internal system, I cannot identify the AS/400 by name in
> the local domain's DNS. It's in /etc/hosts, so it can be telnetted by
> name. but if I try to configure exim's smartuser director to forward to
> it using the following director setup:
>
>
> smartuser:
> driver = smartuser
> new_address = ${local_part}@???
>
> exim (V2.0) bounces messages saying that "as400.local.domain" is an
> unroutable domain.
>
> If I use an explicit IP address:
>
> smartuser:
> driver = smartuser
> new_address = ${local_part}@???
>
> exim delivers the mail, but the AS/400 complains that 172.25.5.3 is not a
> valid hostname.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
My first thought would be to keep that setup; but add a lookuphost router
that uses gethostbyname.
-Pat
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