backup server
G'day all, I have looked through the archives for info about setting up a secondary mail server. I have followed the steps in the replies I found but I am confused about one point. I have tcpserver running on the secondary and it accepts mail coming into it. I can see the message in the queue. What I don't get is how it sends that message to the primary server once the primary comes back up? I figure it has to be qmail-send but am not sure how/where to start this on the secondary. What have I missed? Many thanks, Dave.
Re: backup server
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:33:02AM +1000, David Ryan wrote: G'day all, I have looked through the archives for info about setting up a secondary mail server. I have followed the steps in the replies I found but I am confused about one point. I have tcpserver running on the secondary and it accepts mail coming into it. I can see the message in the queue. What I don't get is how it sends that message to the primary server once the primary comes back up? I figure it has to be qmail-send but am not sure how/where to start this on the secondary. What have I missed? You've missed the fact that if the primary has a better MX for the same domain name, the secondary will just send it -- providing that the domain name in question is not in locals or virtualdomains on the secondary. It's really that simple. That's what MX 'distance' is for. Of course, this also presumes that qmail-send is actually running. I don't think that's what you were asking? -- Greg White
qmail as backup server
Hi! I need to configure qmail as secondary mail server, but I don't want to make users on it, I just want to take messages for that domain and wait until primary mail server is available, then, send to it all messages that was for it? Vladimir Vucinic
Re: qmail as backup server
Vladimir Vucinic wrote: I need to configure qmail as secondary mail server, but I don't want to make users on it - add a secondary mx record for the domain to point to this server - add the domain to the 'rcpthosts' file on this server (but NOT the 'locals' file) - give qmail-send a SIGHUP you're all set.
Re: qmail as backup server
Thanks, I already added mx record, but I wasn't sure that it can be as simple as it is (by modifying rcpthosts file). Thanks, once more. Vlada - Original Message - From: "joshua stein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 20:26 Subject: Re: qmail as backup server Vladimir Vucinic wrote: I need to configure qmail as secondary mail server, but I don't want to make users on it - add a secondary mx record for the domain to point to this server - add the domain to the 'rcpthosts' file on this server (but NOT the 'locals' file) - give qmail-send a SIGHUP you're all set.
backup server for spooling
I'm wondering howto setup a MX 20 server that will be a backup and spool email when the mx 10 server is down and when the mx 10 server goes backup then to transfer the spool of sorts to the mx 10 server Thanks for your time, Eric
Re: backup server for spooling
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:37:24AM -0700, Eric Peters wrote: I'm wondering howto setup a MX 20 server that will be a backup and spool email when the mx 10 server is down and when the mx 10 server goes backup then to transfer the spool of sorts to the mx 10 server Hi Eric, http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/08/msg00173.html Regards, james -- James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster - IE TLD Hostmaster IE Domain Registry - www.domainregistry.ie - (+353 1) 706 2375 "Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
