Re: [exim] manualroute and queueing

On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Mark Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> I know it doesn't seem right, I agree, but simply adding the smart
>>> router adds
>>> a significant delay on the client end. I have observed this
>>> directly. Is
>>> there something else to adding a smart router?
>>
>> No. All I can suggest is that you run the server in debug mode, with
>> and
>> without the smart router, with timestamping turned on, and see if the
>> debug output give you any clue as to what is happening.
>
> I suspect a delay caused by DNS lookups during address verification.
> Check the DNS setup of the smarthost.

I think I solved the root of the problem, which was that I had simply
added the smarthost router to the head of the configure file, and left
the default dnslookup router. I removed the dnslookup router and
things are nice and speedy now, with no need for odd queueing. Now my
router is:

smart_route:
driver = manualroute
domains = !+local_domains
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * smtp.sbcglobal.net

... followed by my local delivery routers.

So, I guess the delivery was being tried twice, or some such nonsense,
which is now fixed. Does that make sense?

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