You do NOT need the smtproutes entry if your DNS is set up correctly.
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Dustin Miller wrote:
> Can we get a consensus here?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: david [mailto:david]On Behalf Of David L. Nicol
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:10 PM
> To: Timothy L. Mayo
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: secondary mail relay: rcpthosts AND SMTPROUTES
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> "Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
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> > > And add a line in control/smtproutes too; otherwise you'll
> > > bounce messages as qmail mistakenly interprets that it is supposed
> > > to be the end recipient. This starts happening only after you
> > > actually modify the MX records.
> > >
> >
> > No. An smtproutes entry is NOT needed. The only time you would have a
> > problem would be if you placed your server at the same MX or higher
> > priority as the machine you were serving as the secondary for. (Remeber
> > that a HIGHER MX number is a LOWER priority.)
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> > Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Senior Systems Administrator
> > localconnect(sm)
> > http://www.localconnect.net/
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> Yes, that is what I thought, too, until I did it. The primary MX has
> priority five, the secondary has priority 20, and I set the qmail box
> to have priority 200 and what happened to the occasional piece of
> e-mail that got to it? It was bounced, with a message that said
> "Although I am listed as the primary mx for this host, I haven't a
> clue what to do with this piece of e-mail." (from memory.)
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> After concernedly rereading the FAQ I added lines to smtproutes
> and things are now working properly: the occasional piece of overflow
> that
> wanders into the box in question is now held briefly and then forwarded.
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> The fact that I had no "locals" file may have had something to do with
> it; although the documentation seems to say that a locals file is not
> needed if you only accept local mail for "me."
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> The moral of the story? Set up test cases before altering your
> production
> systems, no matter how well-documented and "authoritatively" asserted
> the
> feature may be.
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> David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Corel Linux is Debian with qmail preinstalled
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