Re: [Exim] confused with ETRN

Steve Foster wrote:
> At 13:31 14/11/02 +0100, Nico Erfurth wrote:
>
>
>>The message is just routed, as every other message.
>>If you want to deliver to a special host, that's not the primary-mx, or
>>you want to sent to the host that does send the ETRN, you will have to
>>do some scripting work (using etrn_command) and add a manual-router.
>>
>
>
> Hi there, no i just want to trigger delivery to the primary-mx , the
> problem is that i have multiple
> MX servers for resiliency, my customers normally use finger to connect to a
> finger daemon running on my hosts, this then runs an ETRN on all 3 of my
> hosts to trigger the delivery....
> what i would like to do is do a cascaded ETRN so that customers can use
> ETRN to trigger delivery on one host and this ETRN is cascaded to the other
> 2 hosts, i assume something along the lines of the following would be
> sufficient..
>
> smtp_etrn_command = /usr/local/bin/mxfinger $domain
>
> my mxfinger command would then cascade the delivery request to the other
> hosts , as well as itself..
>
> does this seem acceptable..

Yes, that's ok, but maybe you just should collect all mails for
"ETRN"-Users on a single server.