RE: [Exim] problem with Exim version 4.12

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Autor: Sujit Choudhury
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: RE: [Exim] problem with Exim version 4.12
Philip,
Thanks very much for your help. It is working fine on the test machine.

Sujit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: 19 March 2003 10:55
> To: Sujit Choudhury
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] problem with Exim version 4.12
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Sujit Choudhury wrote:
>
> > In Exim 4.12 route_internal_bydns is as follows:
> > route_internal_bydns:
> >   driver = manualroute
> >   domains = ! +local_domains
> >   route_list = *.wmin.ac.uk $domain bydns ; \
> >     *.westminster.ac.uk $domain bydns ; \
> >     psi.org.uk $domain bydns
> >   self = reroute: mtahost.wmin.ac.uk
> >   transport = internal_smtp
> >   # To deal with "root@jaguar" where MX record points to us

> >
> > Is there something in 2.xx that does not work in 4.xx any more as far
> > as this kind of routing is concerned?
>
> Yes. The manualroute router in Exim 4 does _host_ lookups. It is a
> "cleaner" design, in that it routes from a domain to a host. In Exim 2
> and 3 there was confusion, because you could - and you did - make the
> equivalent router to MX lookups. So what you got was "route this domain
> as if it were that domain". I haven't really got a clean way of doing
> that in Exim 4. There are some ideas on the Wish List, but it hasn't
> ever been urgently pressing...
>
> Looking at your router above, if you really want *.westminster.ac.uk and
> psi.org.uk to be router using those names via the DNS, then you can use
> something like:
>
> xxx:
> driver = dnslookup
> domains = *.westminster.ac.uk : psi.org.uk
> self = reroute: mtahost.wmin.ac.uk
> transport = internal_smtp
>
> This is untested, but I think it does the same job.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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