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 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.
>>>
>>> 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

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> 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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But that still puts it in the queue. That's why I made the original
request to discard instantly after a try because I don't want any
queueing at all on this server. I want it to try only once and give up.