On 3 Nov 2006, at 12:29, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > >> I would like to handle shorter retry times to all yahoo domains. I >> know I >> could use the pattern >> yahoo.com >> yahoo.ca >> etc. >> >> Is this the only way to go or can I somehow specify yahoo.* to >> match all >> yahoo domains and specify shorter max-mail-in-queue time for it? > > No. Exim provides only *.something for "ends with". If you want > anything > more complicated you have to use a regex. Even for "begins with". :-) > You could try [EMAIL PROTECTED]@yahoo\. as a pattern (wrap it in \N...\N). > > ... and of course you'll just have to hope that somebody completely > unrelated to Yahoo! doesn't have a domain called > yahoo.their.top.domain, > but I guess it wouldn't really matter much if they did.
If you could be bothered you could gather a list of all the yahoo MX records. (or at least all the ones relevant to your mailing list) and then write a custom retry rule for them. See retries section of the config file > > -- > Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service > Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book > > -- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ > -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
