Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Ian Eiloart
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts


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


How would you specify that?

*                *        F,0h,0h


Starting /etc/init.d/exim: 2007-08-13 09:09:39 Exim configuration error
in line 19 of /etc/exim/conf/retry.conf:
bad parameters for retry rule