I never used exim. My faviorate MTA is postfix. But this time I needed to configure exim MTA (mail transfer agent used in Unix-like operating systems) to router all mails using a smarthost called mta3.somewhere.com
Open exim configuration file i.e. begin routers section and add or modify it as follows:
smarthost:
driver = manualroute
domains = *
transport = remote_smtp
route_data = "mta3.somewhere.com"
Restart exim to take effect.
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the domains should be domains = ! +local_domains otherwise mail for the local machine could be sent out to the smarthost then back.
Dear friends,
I am new with EXIM.
Do you know how to configure EXIM to route mails to another SMTP address for specific domain destination?
Example:
The primary EXIM domain is @abc.com,
The EXIM should route all mails to host server01.abc.com that email destination’s domain with @server01.abc.com
Do you know how to accomplish it with EXIM?
note: the domain @server01.abc.com is not registered in DNS
Thank you very much
Tjilik@gmail.com