Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

--On 13 August 2007 08:21:34 -0700 Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote:

> There might be a better way to do this but I don't see it. I am trying
> to send spam to various blacklists providers for information harvesting.
> The feed is rather high volume and sometimes the receiving end can't
> keep up. This is email that doesn't have to be delivered so I want to
> make only one delivery attempt and if it doesn't work, discard it. No
> message queueing or retry.
>
> What I thought might be a good way to do this is that if you specify a
> fallback_host = 0.0.0.0 it tells the system to discard if delivery
> fails. Of course if there's a better way that would be great.

What's wrong with specifying a retry rule for the host you're submitting to?

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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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