[exim] Re: How to use a smarthost after a permanent error on…

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Dla: Giuseppe Sacco via Exim-users
Temat: [exim] Re: How to use a smarthost after a permanent error on direct delivery
• Giuseppe Sacco via Exim-users [2024-10-04 11:14]:
> Hello,
> I have a DSL connection that always has its IP address listed in some
> blacklist, so direct deliveries from my exim server sometimes fails
> with permanent errors like this one:
>
> 550 5.7.1 Service unavailable; client [95......78] blocked using
> zen.spamhaus.org
>
> I also have a smarthost, but I prefer direct delivery, so I added a
> router that checks for the target domain against a list and use the
> smarthost if the domain is listed, otherwise it goes for the direct
> delivery.
>
> I would like to avoid to manually maintain such a list. One option
> would be to let exim tries the smarthost after receiveing a permanent
> error from the remote smtp transport. I could not find how to do this.
>
> Another option would be to let exim update the list adding domains that
> fails permanently. This will bounce only the first message, and will
> use the smarthost on subsequent messages to the same domain.
>
> Or maybe, such a list is available and maintained somewhere on the
> Internet. Or any other solution that I do not currently see.
>
> This is for sure a common problem, so I wonder how other people solved
> it.


I'm just using _my_ smarthost in such cases.

An option I'd consider would also be to use SOCKS5 proxy on the smtp
transport: https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-proxies.html

Have you considered using RCPT ACL to do callout verification? Not to
reject RCPT in case of a callout failure, but to check whether or not
use a smarthost. An unsucessfull callout would set som $acm_m variable,
which later could be used to route the message via smarthost. Just an
idea, not even sure it would work.

> Thank you,
> Giuseppe


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