Re: [exim] Fwd: starting exim4 automatically

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Fwd: starting exim4 automatically
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:42:27 -0500, "Wes Carver" <shadwsrch@???>
wrote:
>In the "domain" section of the hubbed_host router, it looks like there is a
>test for a hubbed_hosts file...the test fails...
>in output:
>expansion of "${if
>exists{/etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts}{partial-lsearch;/etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts}fail}"
>forced failure: assume not in this list
>
>Why did this fail...there is no hubbed_hosts file in that folder...do I need
>one?


Yes, you do.

Quoting from the man page:
|/etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts
|       is  an  optional file containing a list of route_data records which can
|       be used to override or augment MX information from  the  DNS.  This  is
|       particularly  useful  for mail hubs which are highest-priority MX for a
|       domain in the DNS but are not final destination of the messages,  pass-
|       ing  them on to a host which is not publicly reachable, or to temporar-
|       ily fix mail routing in case of broken DNS setups.

|
|       The file should contain key-value pairs of  domain  pattern  and  route
|       data of the form

|
|       domain: host-list options
|       dict.ref.example:  mail-1.ref.example:mail-2.ref.example
|       foo.example: internal.mail.example.com
|       bar.example: 192.168.183.3

|
|       which  will  cause  mail  for foo.example to be sent to the host inter-
|       nal.mail.example (IP address derived from A record  only),  and  mailto
|       bar.example to be sent to 192.168.183.3.

|
|       See  spec.txt chapter 20.3 through 20.7 for a more detailed explanation
|       of host list format and available options.


If I understand your problem right, this is exactly what you need. And
it is already there.

Greetings
Marc

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