On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:10:52AM -0700, mandarine wrote:
> What is the best way to setup qmail as a secondary mail server for a domain
> name, ie something.com has 2 MX records, second MX points to a mail server
> running qmail. I need qmail to act as a fallback server, if the first (also
> qmail :) goes down or si busy. Whats the best way of doing this so that
> fallback will accept email and forward everything to a pop server.
On the secondary server, put the domains for which you want to receive mail in
rcpthosts, but not in locals or virtualdomains. That's it!
> Also, whats the best way to tweak both servers so that the server one has a
> nice threashold, and the fallback handles anything above that threashold of
> incoming mail.
If you're using tcpserver to run qmail-smtpd, you can use the -c option to
limit the number of incoming connections.
Chris
