Re: [exim] limiting simaltenous connections to certain hosts

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Zbigniew Szalbot
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] limiting simaltenous connections to certain hosts
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> Is there a way to have a router which would limit the number of sim.
> connections to
> hosts defined in a flat file so that exim does not unnecessarily keep
> trying where most of its attempts are being rejected anyway?


Look at the serialize_hosts option of the smtp transport. It doesn't do
exactly what you want, because it has a coded-in limit of 1, but if that
is OK, it is simple to use.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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