Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-24 Thread lee
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:11:28PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz: > > 2.3.1. Using Exim as SMTP-AUTH client Thanks! Seems like they extended the documentation since the last time I looked :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-24 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:40:08AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > > How did it solve the problem of authenticating with the smarthosts? > > > You're not using open relays, are you? > > > > I simply added yet another line with smarthost:user:p

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-22 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:40:08AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > How did it solve the problem of authenticating with the smarthosts? > > You're not using open relays, are you? > > I simply added yet another line with smarthost:user:password to > /etc/exim4/passwd.client

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-22 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > i do think that the configuration facilities have great advantages over > > plain conffile editing for unexperienced users. but they're not always > > an option for complicated setups. > > > > in my case the facility does exactly what I would like it to do: it > > take

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-22 Thread lee
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:17:57PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > hello, > > On 21/07/2009 lee wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? > > > > Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts in

Re: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 20/07/2009 Neil Youngman wrote: > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? I found > > information about setting fallback hosts in case that delivery failed, > > but that's not really what I am searching for. > > I haven't done this, but it looks as though it should be easy

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, On 21/07/2009 lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? > > Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts instead of > one. You need to look it up in info exim4 or in the PDF manual, b

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-20 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts instead of one. You need to look it up in info exim4 or in the PDF manual, but afair exim will try hosts on

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090720094337.ga7...@resivo.wgnet.de>, Jonas Meurer wrote: >Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? I don't know how, but it sounds like it should be possible. You might have more luck on pkg-exim4-us...@lists.alioth.d.o. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,

exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
igure one or more fallback smart hosts in case that the primary smart host that I currently use is not available. Unfortunately the debconf exim4-config configuration facility doesn't give options to configure one or more fallback smart hosts, so I'm unsure about whether that is