Pkg exim4 users - May 2006 - Re: question about update-exim4.conf manpage

pkg-exim4-users-request@lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> It might be nice to check the validity of the output file in all cases
> (which was the behavior I assumed), but that''s a somewhat separate
> issue.
Agreed.  On the same issue, are failed validity checks logged?  If I 
gravely mutilate the source files update-exim4.conf takes a long time to 
complete and generates a blank (comments only) config.autogenerated 
file, but I can''t see any error logged in /var/log/messages or 
/var/log/exim4.

I''m in the process of migrating from Red Hat and sendmail to Debian and
Exim so please be patient if this is a naive question.

Regards,
Rob

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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:10:35PM +0200, Rob Borland
wrote:
> Agreed.  On the same issue, are failed validity checks logged?
No.
> If I gravely mutilate the source files update-exim4.conf takes a long
> time to complete and generates a blank (comments only)
> config.autogenerated file, but I can''t see any error logged in
> /var/log/messages or /var/log/exim4.
An empty file is not valid, and thus the exim daemon won''t be reloaded
in that case.

otoh, there are errors that are not caught by the exim -bV check that
we do.

Greetings
Marc

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Management have decided to change the company they use to catch all the 
spam and viruses we would otherwise get if we didn''t use such.

This is fine - I''ve changed the configuration and the MX records and it
appears to be working fine - inbound.

What I need to know is if Exim4 can be configured to have multiple 
upstream smart hosts.  I would know how to configure it to use a single 
smart host - but the new provider would like us to specify outgoing 
priorities if possible.

So dpkg-reconfigure isn''t going to do the job.

If anyone can point me at a section of manual page or anything that 
allows me to do this - I''d be very grateful.

Thanks.

Regards
Neil

"Neil Briscoe" <neil.briscoe@adelix.com>
wrote:
>
>What I need to know is if Exim4 can be configured to have multiple 
>upstream smart hosts.  I would know how to configure it to use a single 
>smart host - but the new provider would like us to specify outgoing 
>priorities if possible.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch20.html

You''ll want to use +s in the route_data. You can do the same thing with
the hosts option of the smtp transport.

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Thankyou for that - I''ll give it a whirl.

Regards
Neil