Bug#307370: update-exim4.conf.8.gz: implications of multiple hosts

[Marc Haber]

tags #307370 confirmed pending
thanks

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:32:05PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> You mention
>        dc_smarthost
>               List of hosts to which all outgoing mail is passed to  and  that
>               takes care of delivering it. Multiple hosts are colon separated,
>               and all deliveries go out to TCP port 25.  Specifying  different
>               ports  is  not (yet) possible due to upstream restrictions. Used
>               as value of the DCsmarthost macro.
> 
> but you don't say what this does:
> *Uses both hosts in parallel?

Explain how this could be possible.

> *Uses first host, and if not working, then uses second host?

This is the way it is done.

Committed a clarifying sentence to svn. Since it doesn't make sense to
replicate the entire exim specification in the manpage, and the actual
process of processing the host list is rather complex, this includes a
reference to the specification document.

Greetings
Marc

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