Re-Routing AOL Mails
Adam Davis
ald at dovienya.net
Thu Jun 19 23:32:06 CDT 2003
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Scott Smith wrote:
> If I understand the problem, I think you can just tell your MTA to
> relay all outbound mail through smtp-server.kc.rr.com. With Postfix
> that'd be like ->
>
> relayhost = smtp-server.kc.rr.com
Good plan. I modified it a little.
Exim's config has these deals called routers. My understanding is
that they're basically last-step sort of things to define what's to be
done with outgoing mail. I made this the first one:
aol_pipe:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = aol.com smtp-server.kc.rr.com
The driver domainlist allows me to use that route_list option. All mail
to aol.com is routed through RR's smtp server. (aol.com can be
replaced by any regexp, it just happens I only need to avoid one
particular doman) All other mail is treated normally (sent directly based
on MX records).
There's apparently a new driver (manualroute) for versions of Exim > 4.0
which works better and is better documented. There's a different sort
of setup for that driver but I didn't explore it much. I've got the
latest stable Debian version, 3.35. As far as I know, though, this
domainlist method ought to work for newer versions as well.
Just in case any other Exim/RR/Dialup people'd like to avoid routing
everything through RR.
~Adam Davis
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