Re: [Exim] Recipient Verification/manualroute question

Kelley Reynolds <schnozzy@???> wrote:
> When using manualroute, if the host's IP cannot be found, there are
> several options to choose from... defer, pass fail, freeze, etc. The
> default is to freeze, which is a good thing. However, I don't know
> that freezing has any meaning under a recipient verification context.
> Currently, the behavior appears to be that if a forward host's IP
> cannot be found during recipient callout verification, it defers. Is
> there any way to accept during verification so that the message gets
> in the queue and either eventually gets delivered or deleted? I know
> it's seems like a bit of a hack, but the only other way I could think
> of to do this would be to have an additional router and have this on
> pass to it on failing to find a host (which may be the proper way to
> do it).
>
> Any thoughts?

Make yourself a second manualroute router with the 'verify' option set -
tweak it so it does what you expect for a verification (ie, not freeze). Put
it in front of the 'real' manualroute router, and maybe set that one to
'noverify' for safety.

Peter