Thanks for the feedback Philip. I guess I'll just write it off as a fluke.
If it ever reoccurs at least I'll remember to save my configure file next
time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
To: "Rick Ennis" <rge1@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] sender verify calls out to the wrong host
> 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.
