On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Phil Chambers wrote:
> Unfortunately there is no "hosts" option for directors, which seems odd since there
> is a "fallback_hosts" option.
>
> What am I missing?
A sense of history? :-) This is a consequence of the way Exim has
developed. Directors cannot generate host lists; routers can. But, as
you point out, directors can generate fallback_hosts - this feature was
added later. Routers and directors have got a lot more like each other;
maybe one day they will merge.
Meanwhile:
> director:
> driver = smartuser
> domains = <host-list>
> no_rewrite
> transport = yyy
> new_address = ${local_part}@<lookup to get "host-x">
>
> transport yyy:
> driver = smtp
> gethostbyname
> hosts = <lookup "host-x" in a file to get "host">
What is the contents of <host-list>? If it is a lookup, have you
discovered the $domain_data variable? It might be just what you need.
(But you need a relatively recent version of Exim to use it in the
transport.)
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