This seems to be open season for smail questions, so I'll ask one
that has been puzzling me for a long time.
I have always understood that when I deliver mail to a smarthost,
the smarthost is supposed to handle everything transparently to my
machine. I have smail configured with my ISP, metrolink.net, as a
smarthost for all mail. However, smail seems to wait for the
smarthost to resolve the address before handing over the mail. Is
this the proper behavior for an MTA handing over to a smarthost? I
don't think my machine should wait to see if the smarthost can route
it.
When I use runq -v, I get the following:
bob:vc-2:bob>runq -v
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mc.seflin.org matched by smart_host router:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: metrolink.net matched by smart_host router:
routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
metrolink.net
routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
metrolink.net
transport smtp uses driver tcpsmtp
lock retry/smtp/post.metrolink.net
lock succeeded (will defer failure) retry/smtp/post.metrolink.net
transport smtp: connect to host post.metrolink.net
[207.31.112.16]/smtp...connected
unlock (success) retry/smtp/post.metrolink.net
write_log:Delivered VIA:post.metrolink.net TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ORIG-TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp
write_log:Delivered VIA:post.metrolink.net TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ORIG-TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp
write_log:Completed.
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