From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O36jM-0003G4-Gf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:02:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63432E0851; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A9CE0851 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb22 with SMTP id 22so1956773wwb.40 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:01:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=xRjKGiVk21HVqhJfFUSkTIQYX2UFIJbIa4QhxN2rTQA=; b=L+kY0x/DkyR38Ocaq5pr8HWHV9D6spd1Bfx8wLVx4dPJ+QIknYwcJUfyAeyWgQWR24 vb/loPan9bSUF9yEuwl9QeVfpwh5qCRqDV1DuEG2Zhb221fn2s/TXs7/TF0CxEMoRFTW gnrHzXLASA988xX0sKKaCHkYiL8UA2vrAA9tc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=xytzsjyYfuVBKyGgAs4u4UPoaqQYMfBPC950GrseUHqjzdsSndzj1xPLVlwmDT5qoo V6ZG6dL1FPDIkBL6MH7lL5cQNy27K3CEfe374trvt1+ZFfWwwT8bkjUzOYat9L9IB+iv LfExXePzX1dBcxnhSh2hVARZtecrh11wgrnf8= Received: by 10.216.89.142 with SMTP id c14mr3593670wef.55.1271505715463; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r29sm29665551wbv.9.2010.04.17.05.01.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:01:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:01:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <87vdbrarck.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87vdbrarck.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart16744450.JhC46Oiqzc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004171301.54729.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f788b8fd-8b23-4506-bdc2-a45e77eee4b0 X-Archives-Hash: 9a515bf8be24e88fd5f14610c8020bef --nextPart16744450.JhC46Oiqzc Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:51:39 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a (native) way to configure sendmail to send messages via a > > secondary smtp account, if dor some reason the primary ISP smtp is > > down, without some bespoke DIY script? >=20 > Not give you the runaround, and there may well be some sendmail > experts here... but I think your question is more likely to get a > really helpful response if you put it on comp.mail.sendmail. >=20 > You might get an answer from Per Hedlund or one of the other heavy > hitters there. >=20 > I've used sendmail for yrs but just on homeboy little local lans. >=20 > I'd be surprised if there is not some well trod way to do what you are > asking. Sendmail is probably the most widely used MTA around so it > seem really likely that problem has been dealt with in some way. =46or the purpose of posterity: The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to defi= ne=20 a fall back smtp server. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart16744450.JhC46Oiqzc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkvJozIACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa3agCgidLxqqebH5h9jRJ9NsDTHtup 0toAoKa2QTZiO6h18o0KGeU7yuwARJp2 =3Mb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart16744450.JhC46Oiqzc--