[Mimedefang] SMTP mailertable question

[Andrew J Caird]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Cormack, Ken wrote:

> Granted, the discussion thread you point to dealt with sendmail 8.11.6.
> However, I think the sum of the discussion came down to this, in which the
> writer said it didnt work...
>
> > 3. I changed the first IP to a invalid (unreachable) IP adress. Sendmail
> > doesn´t try to deliver it to the second one. I thought, I can make some
> > kind of "easy failover" this way.


The 5th message in that thread states:

    > After putting in the brackets, the failover works fine. Thanks for all
    > replies.

So this might be worth testing for people who need this functionality.

Cheers.
Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] SMTP mailertable question
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Cormack, Ken wrote:
>
> > It would be nice if the sendmail folks would allow "SmartHost" to
> > contain a list of hosts to be tried in sequence.  But in the meantime, a
> > hack such as mine, though certainly not pretty, works quite well.
>
>   Don't they?
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&th=552fbc7b7c4525f0&seekm=b8ue8i%241plj%244%40hedeland.org&frame=off
>
>   I can't find any other references to what they are doing, but I'm
> addressing the same issue you are right now, and happened to run across
> this.   I'd certainly be interested in hearing if people have other
> knowledge about this.