RE: [Exim] Delaying outgoing mail

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Author: Paul Walsh
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To: Gary Jones, exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Delaying outgoing mail
Wouldn't queue_only in the main part of the configuration file do the trick
(running the daemon with just the -bd option)? Then, when you want the
queue to be processed you use exim -q

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Jones [mailto:garyjones@linuxfreemail.com]
Sent: 02 March 2001 17:41
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Delaying outgoing mail


On 1 Mar 2001, Jeff Green <jeff@???> wrote:

> >I'm on a dialup, and what I want to do is delay anything that might
> >cause a connection to be established (including dns lookup for the
> >smarthost) until I tell exim to go ahead


> I resolved this by adding the smarthost's address (and all local clients)
> to /etc/hosts and adding
>
>          queue_remote_domains = *


Tja. I wanted to avoid doing that if I could, as should it ever
change IP I'd have a broken setup. Oh well, if it can't be helped...

> to the global configuration section, then adding
>
>          # Send all mail to a smarthost

>
>          smarthost:
>            driver = domainlist
>            transport = remote_smtp
>            route_list = "* smarthost.somedomain.com bydns_a"


Aha! Thanks very much :)

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Gary
Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6
Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes
not on the equal freedom of others. HERBERT SPENCER, 1851


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