From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 17:33:22 EDT
A fall back transport table?
Wietse
Craig Sanders:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:33:54PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> > transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> >
> > /etc/postfix/transport:
> > hotmail.com deadbeats:
> >
> > /etc/postfix/master.cf:
> > deadbeats unix - - n - - smtp
> > -o smtp_connect_timeout=10s
> >
> > Add other -o options as needed, but this should help you skip over
> > deadbeats quickly.
>
> clever. i like it.
>
> extending the concept a little further, is there any point in having a
> fallback_transport option in main.cf that sends all mail that failed the
> first delivery attempt (or possibly a configurable number of deliveries)
> via the specified transport IFF there is no existing transport table
> entry for that domain (it is important to have a manual override)
>
> fallback_transport would also be useful for dialup mail hosts which used
> both smtp and uucp for outbound mail....would be possible to configure
> it to use smtp while online, but fall back to uucp when offline.
>
>
> i just noticed that fallback_transport already exists...but has a
> different purpose to what is described above. can't think of another
> name, except perhaps smtp_fallback_transport which i don't like because
> it's too specific to smtp.
>
> maybe fallback_transport should be renamed to local_fallback_transport,
> and the idea above should get the generic fallback_transport name.
>
>
> craig
>
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