Re: [exim] Queue instead of temporarily reject

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Author: Evgeniy Berdnikov
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Queue instead of temporarily reject
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:30:11PM +0000, Thomas Hommers wrote:
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> I've setup a manual route to forward all emails addresses to a certain domain to one host. This is working fine, except the dns of this host cannot be resolved. In this case the SMTP connection in temporarily rejected.
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> I would like to have the email accepted and queued instead of temporarily rejected.
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> Does somebody knows if this is possible?


Try option "host_find_failed = defer" for manualroute router.
Look at http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_manualroute_router.html
for description of this option.

However, you shoud understand that "solution" is bad, because situation
when DNS answers "no such host" is a serious configuration error
(don't mess is with DNS timeout, which should be a temporary error).
You have better to make address of your mail hub resolvable,
maybe by entry in local /etc/hosts.
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Eugene Berdnikov