Hi folks I've got a remote office with it's own DSL connection to the internet as well as a direct link back to the main office.
I have exim set up to delivery email directly using a normal DNS router which works fine. However, the DSL connection is unreliable and sometimes I have to manually switch over to a smarthost down the direct link to head office. Config shown below. Is there a way that I could get Exim to cope automatically with the state of the DSL connection? maybe try the dnslookup first but fail over to smarthost for network related errors? If Exim cannot do it directly, I could write a monitor deamon that could set / reset some for of trigger. Would this help? begin routers # smarthost_domains = those domains that reject emails from DSL connections # smarthosts when DSL is working, local_domains when DSL is down smarthost: driver = manualroute # domains = +smarthost_domains domains = ! +local_domains ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 transport = remote_smtp route_data = mail.ringways.co.uk no_more dnslookup: driver = dnslookup domains = ! +local_domains transport = remote_smtp ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 no_more -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
