Mark Goodge: > I have a slightly odd problem, in that my main outbound mail server is > seemingly being blocked by one of the UK's major budget web/mail hosts. > My postfix logs show things like this: > > status=deferred (lost connection with athena.hosts.co.uk[85.233.160.20] > while receiving the initial server greeting) ... > I've put in a workaround using transport maps to simply hand off mail > for affected domains to my other mail server (which normally handles > inbound mail), and from there it gets through OK. But that requires an > entry in the transport table for each affected domain, and I keep > encountering new ones - some of which I may only ever need to mail once > or twice and never again!
Why not use IP-level redirect. redirect 85.233.160.20 address-of-other-server Wietse