On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Rolf Habing wrote:
> do not have internal DNS, but I'd still like to construct a redundacy
> feature where gate1 takes outgoing stuff if gate2 goes down. Would the
> following router configuration work?
>
> send_to_gateway:
> driver = domainlist
> transport = remote_smtp
> route_list = * gate2:gate1 byname
Yes.
> I'm unsure about the use and application of the host list in route_list.
> I can't seem to work out from the documentation whether the second host
> in the list will only be tried if the first one doesn't answer, or
> whether mail goes to both sides.
It tries them in order until one works.
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