Re: [EXIM] configuration problem

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Berkan Eskikaya
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] configuration problem
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Berkan Eskikaya wrote:

> > 1) Any mail that is sent from my computer while it's offline should wait
> > in the queue until a connection is established.
>
>    exim -qf is run automatically to flush the queue whenever the PPP link
>    is up. Like I said, this used to work. But now, sometimes when I send a 
>    message while I'm offline, exim freezes the message saying that there 
>    was a domain look-up failure.

>
>    My smarthost router includes the line

>
>    route_list = "* smtp.freeserve.net bydns_a"



That would naturally suffer a domain lookup failure. You can change the
behaviour from freeze to defer by setting the host_find_failed option.


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



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