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Author: Stevo
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To: Tabor J. Wells, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mail
Actually I finally worked it out.... for those of you that are
interested...

testconf:
driver = manualroute
domains = domain.com
route_data = 1.2.3.4
transport = remote_smtp

--Stevo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevo" <checkpoint@???>
To: "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mail


> Okay I read TFM :) but I can't make head or tail of the whole Manual

Router
> setup.
>
> Any chance someone here that has that setup can shoot me a config example?
> All I want to do is tell my Exim MTA that any mail messages sent to

@xyz.com
> to send them to the IP address of the DMZ network address (10.x)
>
> --Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???>
> To: "Stevo" <stevo@???>
> Cc: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Mail
>
>
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:42:12PM -0800,
> > Stevo <checkpoint@???> is thought to have said:
> >
> > > I have a little problem. I have 2 SMTP servers in my DMZ - one

running
> Exim and one running Exchange2K. They both have 10.x IP's and are the

MX's
> for 2 different domain names - let's say abc.com and xyz.com. Receiving

and
> sending mail to and from anywhere on the internet work great, but when I

try
> to send mail between the domains things don't work!!
> > >
> > > Obviously the reason for this is that when abc.com tries to send to
> xyz.com the MX record for xyz.com is the 'outside' address for xyz.com and
> not the 10.x address. So it can't make a SMTP connection.
> > >
> > > So I have 2 questions....
> > >
> > > 1) How do I correct this problem?? (I've tried adding a /etc/hosts
> file for the xyz.com domain)
> >
> > Use a manualroute router for the domains in question (assuming Exim 4 --
> in
> > Exim 3 it's called something else which you can find in the docs, but

then
> > you should be running Exim 4 now anyway)
> >
> > > 2) I can't send any more mail to the xyz.com domain - it gives me the
> error "retry time not reached for any host" so when I do a ./exinext
> test@??? it tells me that the next try will be in like 6 hours time.
> How can I force the message to be retried at an earlier time?!
> >
> > Use exim_fixdb to remove that record from the retry db or just remove

the
> > retry db altogether. Or change the retry rules for that domain in your
> > config. Or if there's mail on your queue you want to force a retry on
> > messages already on your queue, you can do 'exim -qf' or 'exim -Rf
> > @example.com'
> >
> > All of this is documented in TFM.
> >
> > Tabor
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Tabor J. Wells                                     twells@???
> > Fsck It!                 Just another victim of the ambient morality

> >
>