On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:45:47AM +0700, Chrisanthy Carlane wrote:
> Another question about mail buffering:
You should really stop calling it mail buffering. Anyone joining the thread
mid-stream won't know what you're talking about. What you are talking about is
providing backup or secondary MX service for a client.
> When my client's mailserver try to connect to my mailserver to pick up their
> queue, what setting should they use for authentication? Pop3? but there's no
> user.
Is your mail server the secondary, and your client's the primary? Mail will be
sent to your server only if the client's is down?
If that's the case, then your client doesn't connect to you to collect mail.
Your mail server queues the mail and tries periodically to send it to your
client's mail server via SMTP. When it finds your client's server up, it
delivers the mail to it.
You're making this much more complicated than it should be. Simply add your
client's domain names to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and nowhere else. Make
sure the MX records are set correctly, and that's all there is to it.
Chris
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