host

host — configure host specific options

Use the host stanza to define per-host configuration options. You can nest host stanzas beneath binding stanzas to define binding::host configuration options. For additional details, see “Configuration Scopes and Fallback”.

The following options can be specified in a host stanza:

• cluster_max_outbound_connections

• max_outbound_connections

**Configuration Change. ** As of version 4.2, Regex is supported in the Host stanza.

In addition to specifying a host by host name, you may use Perl-compatible regular expression (PCRE) syntax to define a "Regex Host". Using regex hosts you can define common rules for hosts that have similar configurations, without needing to specify the rules for every possible matching host.

If you are unsure of the correct host name, you can determine it using the domain domain_name command from the system console. For example, issuing the command domain messagesystems.com results in the following output:

In this case, the host name to use would be edge.omniti.com or edge2.omniti.com.

You can also determine MX servers from the Unix command line by entering dig domain_name mx . If you do a dig and there are no MX records returned, then the host name is the same as the domain name.

The host scope is more specific than the domain scope; host applies to the individual host name of the mail exchanger that is being communicated with.

For example, you can determine Yahoo's MX hosts by issuing the command, dig +short yahoo.com mx , from the command line. You should see something similar to the following:

If you wanted to configure settings specific to i.mx.mail.yahoo.com, you would do so using a host stanza.

You might use a host stanza outside of a domain stanza if you were configuring concurrency limits for hosts that provide service for multiple domains. For instance, Google apps provides mail services to many domains. To limit your overall concurrency to a specific MX machine at Google for a given binding, regardless of which domain you are sending to, do the following:

To be effective, you would do this for each of the MX hosts that service Google apps hosts. You can find the list of hosts in the documentation provided by Google.

host is valid in the binding, binding_group, and global scopes.

binding, domain