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[Jon Seddon]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your advice. That was perfect and we can now happily route our
emails which ever way we like.


Many thanks,


Jon

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:40:09 +0000 Alex King <alex at king.net.nz> wrote

> Hi Jon,
> 
> I think the answer is you don't do this in update-exim4.conf.conf
> 
> You need a new router as you have suggested below, and 
> update-exim4.conf.conf only selects preconfigured routers in the 
> standard configuration.
> 
> Are you using the split configuration, your config file below suggests 
> not?  I would suggest this would be the way to go to achieve what you 
> want.  You can read about it in 
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz.  To select the split 
> configuration, edit update-exim4.conf.conf and change 
> dc_use_split_config to true, or run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and 
> select it there.
> 
> Once you have enabled the split configuration, create a file 
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/190_local_smarthost_alpha, and put your 
> smarthost_alpha router from below in it.  190 is selected so it comes 
> just before 200_exim4-config_primary, which has the preconfigured 
> smarthost router in it.  You don't need your own smarthost router in 
> this case.
> 
> Then just reload exim4 and it should be working.  You can check the 
> complete configuration file in /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
> 
> On 11/01/12 06:22, Jon Seddon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a mail system using exim4 on our ship. We currently send all emails
> > to our ISP's mail server using the following lines in
> > update-exim4.conf.conf: >
> > dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
> > dc_other_hostnames=''
> > dc_local_interfaces=''
> > dc_readhost='ourdomain.co.uk'
> > dc_relay_domains=''
> > dc_minimaldns='true'
> > dc_relay_nets='192.168.0.0/16'
> > dc_smarthost='smtp.isp.com'
> > CFILEMODE='644'
> > dc_use_split_config='false'
> > dc_hide_mailname='true'
> > dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
> > dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
> >
> >
> > We have a mixture of people onboard sending emails. Some work for our
> > company and others work for other companies. Onshore our IT department
> > operate the corporate email system. Some of our emails are being marked as
> > spam and so we need to send emails that are coming from corporate addresses
> > using the corporate mail server (which is now set up to relay emails from
> > the vessel's IP address) but all other emails through the ISP's mail
> > server. >
> > I believe that the following exim4 configuration would achieve this:
> >
> > smarthost_alpha:
> >     condition = ${if eq {${lc:$sender_address_domain}} {ourdomain.co.uk}
> >     {true} > fail }
> >     driver = domainlist
> >     transport = remote_smtp
> >     route_list = "* smtp.ourdomain.co.uk bydns_a"
> >
> >
> > smarthost:
> >     driver = domainlist
> >     transport = remote_smtp
> >     route_list = "* smtp.isp.com bydns_a"
> >
> > However, I am struggling to see how to implement this using the Debian
> > configuration syntax in update-exim4.conf.conf. Any tips or pointers would
> > be greatly appreciated!
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
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