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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