Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

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


--On 13 August 2007 09:10:55 -0700 Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote:

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> 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.
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>> What's wrong with specifying a retry rule for the host you're
>> submitting to?
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> How would you specify that?
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> *                *        F,0h,0h


No, try once every hour for a minute.

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> 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
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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