Re: [EXIM] fallback_hosts

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sergey Matveychuk
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] fallback_hosts
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:

> remote_smtp:
> driver = smtp
> fallback_hosts = mail.my.net
>
> Nothing happened:
> # exim -bt sem@???
> sem@??? cannot be resolved at this time:
> host lookup did not complete

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>
> Mail rejecting as it was.
> What's wrong?


fallback_hosts only work if an attempt at delivery to the original host(s)
fails. In this case, it couldn't even resolve the domain chat.ru to
discover what the original hosts were, so it never got as far as the
transport.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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