rcpthosts is sufficient.
The DNS should be set up similar to this:
domain IN MX 10 primary
domain IN MX 20 your host as backup
Nothing else is required. Since your host has the domain in rcpthosts,
your mailserver will accept mail for domain into its local queue for
delivery. Since domain is NOT in locals or virtualdomains, all mail for
domain will remain in your queue until the higher priority (lower MX
number) mail server is available. In this case the primary.
If and only if the primary is behind a firewall and NOT in DNS do you need
to use smtproutes. For the vast majority of secondary MX servers, this is
NOT needed.
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What would be a basic configuration for a secondary MX, whose
> only role would be "queue everything allowed (rcpthosts) and
> send'em when primary comes back up ?"
>
> Is rcpthosts + smtproutes sufficient ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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