On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Rick Ennis wrote:
> So if acl_verify()
> calls verify_address(), which calls route_address(), which builds the
> associated host list for the address, would the fallback hosts get tacked on
> to that list?
No, they get handled separately later. This is so that if the same
fallback hosts are used for many different domains, a single transfer
takes place. (If they were stuck on the end of each domain's host list,
you could get multiple transfers for multiple failures.)
> And is there any type of failure that could occur during a
> callout that would cause exim to start walking down that list of hosts and
> end up talking to a fallback host?
There shouldn't be.
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