On 3 Nov 2006, at 12:29, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>
>> I would like to handle shorter retry times to all yahoo domains. I
>> know I
>> could use the pattern
>> yahoo.com
>> yahoo.ca
>> etc.
>>
>> Is this the only way to go or can I somehow specify yahoo.* to
>> match all
>> yahoo domains and specify shorter max-mail-in-queue time for it?
>
> No. Exim provides only *.something for "ends with". If you want
> anything
> more complicated you have to use a regex. Even for "begins with". :-)
> You could try ^[^@]+@yahoo\. as a pattern (wrap it in \N...\N).
>
> ... and of course you'll just have to hope that somebody completely
> unrelated to Yahoo! doesn't have a domain called
> yahoo.their.top.domain,
> but I guess it wouldn't really matter much if they did.
If you could be bothered you could gather a list of all the yahoo MX
records. (or at least all the ones relevant to your mailing list)
and then write a custom retry rule for them.
See retries section of the config file
>
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