Ruppert G. von Teutul: > > > If I send a mail to someone at live.com it does not pass to the > > > fallback_relay if relayhost is down. In theory this should only > > > happen if my machine announces itself as MX for live.com. Correct? > > > > Oops, I wrote that code long enough that my memory is incorrect. > > > > Try putting the smtp_fallback_relay inside []. > > > > If that does not turn off MX host detection, then I will read > > Postfix source code more closely. > > I nearly always use [] since my first negative experiences with MX lookups. > So I did here. I specified [127.0.0.1]:10027 as fallback_relay. > I did that for relayhost (with another host), too.
Dang. I'll have to check the source code against the docs. > (Is there any reason I would prefer default_transport over relayhost?) default_transport specifies the name of the mail delivery service and may contain the destination as well. relayhost specifies only the destination. Wietse