[mailed and posted]
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Robin Faichney wrote:
> So what I'd like to do is have alternative smarthosts, where the one to be
> used is determined by which ISP I'm connected to.
>
> I thought I'd cracked it, by using route_file instead of route_list,
> setting search_type to lsearch, where the two files look like this:
>
> *: <ISP1_smarthost> bydns_a
>
> and
>
> *: <ISP2_smarthost> bydns_a
There shouldn't be colons in there.
> and ip-up symlinks the route_file filename to the appropriate file for
> the current connection. But that doesn't work. I got an error message
> from my email client which I unfortunately did not note, but which seemed
> to indicate that routing was thoroughly confused.
I use a set-up very similar to what you describe without trouble.
> I'm hoping that I'm doing something obviously wrong here, in which case
> the error message and further info wouldn't be required.
It could be the : after the * in your route_file
Try putting one of them in, and running
exim -d4 -bt some@???
You'll get lots of debugging output to stderr. Vary to 4 as needed to get
more or less debugging output.
> Or maybe
> there's another, better way of achieving the result I'm looking for.
You've taken what several people recommend as the right strategy. It is
probably just a simple error somewhere.
-j
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