Re: [exim] SMTP Transport: hosts rewriting

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Autor: christian meutes
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CC: Philip Hazel
Assumpte: Re: [exim] SMTP Transport: hosts rewriting
> At first, I did not believe that this could possibly work. The value of
> $host_address is not set in the transport until the transport selects
> one of its list of hosts to try.
>
> However, I've now looked at the code. It turns out that $host_address is
> set to the IP address of the first host that the router passes to the
> transport right at the start. So as long as your MX records only ever
> return ONE IP address, it will work.


How does this work with a normal smtp transport? Doesnt it try the second
MX record with the lower prio when the first one isnt available?
I would be very happy if i could use the smtp transport solution :-)

cheers,

Christian Meutes
systems engineer
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