[ale] Routing mail through my cable provider?

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Tue Jun 6 17:06:51 EDT 2006



Just got this working.  A google search for "exim4 relay mail" was
rather useless but some people in #Debian were helpful and pointed me at
the smarthost entry.  That's actually working perfectly, waiting on my
test email from my sister.

Thus spake Allan Neal (allanneal at comcast.net):

> I have this setup for my Comcast ISP mailhost.  I have the following in my
> exim.conf in the routers section:
> 
>   smart_route:
>   driver = manualroute
>   domains = !+local_domains
>   transport = remote_smtp
>   ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8
>   route_list = * smtp.comcast.net
>   no_more
> 
> Allan
> 
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 04:05:03PM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Question,  Charter cable seems to have a mailhost I can relay through.
> > I'm running Exim4.  Does anyone know if it's easy to tell my exim system
> > to send outbound mail through the charter mail server?  I'm wondering if
> > it'll fix some of the "you're sending from a dynamic ip, you must be
> > spam" crap out on the net.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > :wq!
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:wq!
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Robert L. Harris                     | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B
                                         @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS             With Dreams To Be A King,
       ALONE.  I speak for              First One Should Be A Man
       no-one else.                       - Manowar

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