Re: [exim] Different smarthosts on different ports?

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Andreas Metzler
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Different smarthosts on different ports?
Steinar Bang <sb@???> wrote:
> Platform: Ubuntu 7.10, Intel Pentium M,
>          exim4 4.67-5build1


> I'm currently relaying outgoing email via my home machine, connected via
> a cable modem, on a non-standard port, because my ISP blocks incoming
> SMTP.


> I've done this, by adding a
> port = 2222
> to the remote_smtp_smarthost transport.


> I would like to modify this, so that email sent from my work address
> will use the SMTP server at work as smarthost (it rejects anything with
> the work sender domain, sent from elsewhere).


> Googling has found me this:
>        http://www.nabble.com/Routing-outbound-email-by-senders-address---Part-II-tp14916380p14916380.html
> which should make it possible to route email to different smarthosts,
> depending on the sender address.


> But what I don't know, is if this can be applied to a setup, where
> different smarthosts have different port settings?

[...]

With current exim it should be possible to do this, since

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html#toc0199
"Each item in the list of hosts is either a host name or an IP
address, optionally with an attached port number. "

cu andreas
--
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'