Re: [Exim] Fallback hosts change in Exim 4.31

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: Dean Brooks
Υ/ο: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim] Fallback hosts change in Exim 4.31
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dean Brooks wrote:

> I'm curious about change #21 in Exim 4.31 regarding fallback_hosts and
> ultimate retry timeouts:
>
>   21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed
>       their expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address
>       was bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go
>       on to try the fallback hosts.

>
> My understanding is that fallback_hosts is a transport option, even though
> it can be specified on a router to pass on to the transport.


Correct.

> Does this change also affect long retry failures on DNS lookup
> failures at the routing level?


No.

> Or does the change only affect long retry failures at the transport
> level?


Yes.

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