RE: [Exim] Smart Host on a different port?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Kevin Reed
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Smart Host on a different port?
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Kevin Reed wrote:

> My confusion came from where the port option was used in the manual.
>
> It shows up under the use of the iplookup "router" and does not show up
> under "transport" anywhere in the book that I could find.


Which book? In the reference manual, "port" is listed for the smtp
transport on page 213, in section 29.3, chapter 29, "The smtp transport".
The index has two entries for "port option", the second of which takes
you to page 213.

If you use the HTML version of the manual, in the "option index" there
are two entries for "port". The first takes you to the iplookup router;
the second takes you to the smtp transport.

In the Exim 4 book, the index has an entry "ports, for outgoing
connections" which takes you to page 172, where the port option is
described.

I don't think there is much more I can do to make the documentation for
this option findable.

> So I assumed it
> was a "router" option only. I had tried it with the transport but it failed
> too due to where it was put in the transport definition.


The "driver" option should always come first, because each driver has
different options. Until Exim knows which driver it is dealing with, it
will only recognize the generic options that are available for all
drivers.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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