>> I never managed to get exim to
>> first try direct sends, and then do smarthost sends, for all
>> transmission, despite a large number of attempts using several different
>> items in the exim manual. Anyone have a simple solution?
> No. As you should have seen in the archives before you posted to the
> list, there is strong resistance to the idea that Exim should retry
> sending a mail (even to a different target) after being given a 5xx
> refusal to a direct attempt.
Very well. I had already learned that due to this resistance, others
have been forced to abandon Exim in favor of other products; apparently,
I am now one of them.
> If there was an unambiguous way to detect the _reason_ for the refusal,
> perhaps this might be different. But there's not.
There are many other products out there. I am not worried.
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Jonathan E. Brickman
http://joshuacorps.org