Re: [Exim] delaying route queries

Well one solutions might involve an extra phone line and modem (and
call both ;))

Another might be to only try to send mail while connected to the
reliable but non-newsable one. (and if you only infrequently need to
get news, would work ok..)

Another might be to try and arrange some sort of SMTP auth with one of
the smarthosts..

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> I am having difficulties with my ISP for my home system which is leading
> to the following situations.
>
> Sometimes I dial-up to telephone number A and at other times to B.
>
> Each number requires using a separate smarthost, call them A-relay.domain
> and B-relay.domain. If I use the wrong one, I will get a 5xx.
>
> Now I can probably put the relevant relay in a file to be used by
> route_file when I dial-up so while I am connected I can have the correct
> routing. But when I am not connected and am making use of queue_only_file
> I don't know what number I will be using the next time I dial-up.
>
> So one option seems that if I could actually delay routing (and not just
> delivery) for remote destinations while disconnected then I might be able
> to get this to route correctly after I dial up and go via the correct
> relay.
>
> But if people have alternative strategies to approach this problem, I
> would be pleased with that.
>
> (The origin of the problem is that one of the numbers, B, seems to allow
> me to establish a ppp connection only infrequently, while A is reliable,
> but B is what I need to fetchnews. If I could get B to work reliably, I
> would just use it all the time and not have this problem.)
>
> -j
>

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