On 7 Jun, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth Nigel Metheringham on Mon, Jun 07, 1999:
>> There are a few other wrinkles - especially if you want to avoid either
>> dragging up the external connection every time there is a new message
>> (ie for DNS lookups), or if the external link is not bought up
>> automatically then DNS lookups and connects will fail when the host is
>> offline.
>
> I don't do it at home. DNS lookup just fails, and the message is
> just deferred.
>
I did the following when I used dial-up:
All mail for the outside via a smarthost (no other routers):
route_append:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* smarthost.isp.net byname"
^^^^^^
Put the smarthost in /etc/hosts, no need to poll an external DNS
server.
Set queue_smtp, so exim does the routing.
When the (PPP) link comes up pppd starts exim via the /etc/ppp/ip-up
script:
#!/bin/sh
exim -bd -q30m
and kills it when the link goes down via /etc/ppp/ip-down:
#!/bin/sh
killall exim
Point is, exim is easier to configure for dial-up than the other MTA's
so more and more people will do so. Designed for it or not.
Greetings,
Friso Kuipers.
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