Quoth Friso Kuipers on Mon, Jun 07, 1999:
> route_list = "* smarthost.isp.net byname"
> ^^^^^^
> Put the smarthost in /etc/hosts, no need to poll an external DNS
> server.
Hmm, that's a nice idea. But I won't do it.
> When the (PPP) link comes up pppd starts exim via the /etc/ppp/ip-up
> script:
> and kills it when the link goes down via /etc/ppp/ip-down:
I did exim -qf in the Dialout.up script.
> Set queue_smtp, so exim does the routing.
This means that even when you are online and send mail from your
local machine, the mail is not delivered immediately. Or am I
wrong?
> 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.
The configurability of exim is nice, indeed.
Vadik.
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