Re: Re[4]: [Exim] Mail routing and backup question.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Alexei V. Alexandrov
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [Exim] Mail routing and backup question.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Alexei V. Alexandrov wrote:

> So, as i can understand from documentation temporary errors generated
> during lookups are not handled in any way?


They are certainly handled. Exim decides that it cannot proceed with the
routing, and defers. It will try again later.

> I only have to rely on my
> database server to be always available for these mail server :) Think
> i`ll do so if there is no other way of doing it (and i dont want to
> use dbm or other on a per server bases).


If the routing information is in the database, then there isn't much
Exim can do if the database is not there.

However, you can have a list of several servers.

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