On 13 Sep 2005 at 17:58, Marc Haber wrote about
"Re: [exim] Re: query-style lookup f":
| On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:52:53 -0400, Marc Sherman
| <msherman@???> wrote:
| >Tony Finch wrote:
| >> I think a better solution to this problem would be to change Exim so
| >> that you can explicitly select the client authenticator in the SMTP
| >> transport.
| >
| >IIRC, the exim config doesn't use address_data for anything currently,
| >and has a special router for all smarthost uses. You could set
| >address_data to the smarthost hostname in the smarthost router, and then
| >look up $address_data instead of $host in the authenticator.
|
| I'd rather leave that available for local modifications.
Be that as it may, this seems to me the most (only) straightforward
solution available.
FWIW, while I agree with Tony's statement above, I think your idea
for a generic query-style text file lookup is pretty sexy in its own
right. I can it being useful for lots of different things. I hope
it gets consideration on that basis...
- Fred
