Secondary Mail Server
Hi, Can someone help me understand secondary mail servers? What do i do to configure qmail to be a secondary server. I understand the DNS stuff (server preference and stuff) and i have a two qmail servers (one configured and working as a primary mail server for a domain. Thanks. Nick. -- Nick Davies
Re: Secondary Mail Server
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Nick Davies wrote: Can someone help me understand secondary mail servers? What do i do to configure qmail to be a secondary server. I understand the DNS stuff (server preference and stuff) and i have a two qmail servers (one configured and working as a primary mail server for a domain. On the secondary, put the domains you want to be backup for in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Don't put anything in locals or virtualdomains. Perhaps some entries in smtproutes telling the box where to deliver mail to, in case DNS is down. Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me
secondary mail server
We have qmail-1.3 running and would like to set it up as the secondary mail server for one domain. We want this mail server to keep trying to forward all the mail for that domain to the primary server in case the primary server goes down - say for about 40 hours. This is an emergency for us, any help would be greatly appreciated. Sonam Wangchuk e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: secondary mail server
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:33:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have qmail-1.3 running and would like to set it up as the secondary mail server for one domain. We want this mail server to keep trying to forward all the mail for that domain to the primary server in case the primary server goes down - say for about 40 hours. This is an emergency for us, any help would be greatly appreciated. Fine. Very easy. Set up the box as you would normally, put the domain it's backing up in 'rcpthosts' but not in 'locals'. It will accept mail for that domain and attempt to relay it to the other server for up to a week. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612)-321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: secondary mail server
great!! thank you so much. now i have to figure out how to test it without bringing the primary server down. Sonam Wangchuk e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Beuchler wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:33:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have qmail-1.3 running and would like to set it up as the secondary mail server for one domain. We want this mail server to keep trying to forward all the mail for that domain to the primary server in case the primary server goes down - say for about 40 hours. This is an emergency for us, any help would be greatly appreciated. Fine. Very easy. Set up the box as you would normally, put the domain it's backing up in 'rcpthosts' but not in 'locals'. It will accept mail for that domain and attempt to relay it to the other server for up to a week. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612)-321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: secondary mail server
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:01:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great!! thank you so much. now i have to figure out how to test it without bringing the primary server down. Just telnet to port 25 on that server from an IP that is not allowed to relay through that server and manually send a message. It should relay the message to the other server. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612)-321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: secondary mail server
a quick question. what paramater controls the relay duration ( you mentioned "a week" ), and how can we change it. thank you Sonam Wangchuk e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Beuchler wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:33:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have qmail-1.3 running and would like to set it up as the secondary mail server for one domain. We want this mail server to keep trying to forward all the mail for that domain to the primary server in case the primary server goes down - say for about 40 hours. This is an emergency for us, any help would be greatly appreciated. Fine. Very easy. Set up the box as you would normally, put the domain it's backing up in 'rcpthosts' but not in 'locals'. It will accept mail for that domain and attempt to relay it to the other server for up to a week. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612)-321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
RE: secondary mail server
a quick question. what paramater controls the relay duration ( you mentioned "a week" ), and how can we change it. thank you /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime man qmail-control I'm shamelessly cribbing from Petr's post that came all of 4 hours ago. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forward Messages to a secondary Mail Server
Yep -Original Message- From: Uwe Ohse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Russell, AIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Forward Messages to a secondary Mail Server On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:27:04PM -0500, Jeff Russell, AIT wrote: This is a question regarding forwarding mail to a secondary server. We need to forward email on a per user email basis. Is there a way that when qmail receives email, and does not find that specific address for the user, to direct it to another specified email server. See FAQ 4.1: Answer: Put | forward "$LOCAL"@bigbang.af.mil into ~alias/.qmail-default. (assuming bigbing is the secondary server) Regards, Uwe
Forward Messages to a secondary Mail Server
Hi everyone! This is a question regarding forwarding mail to a secondary server. We need to forward email on a per user email basis. Is there a way that when qmail receives email, and does not find that specific address for the user, to direct it to another specified email server. Anyone that has done this before, please respond. Thanks in advance. Salu Jeff
Re: Forward Messages to a secondary Mail Server
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:27:04PM -0500, Jeff Russell, AIT wrote: This is a question regarding forwarding mail to a secondary server. We need to forward email on a per user email basis. Is there a way that when qmail receives email, and does not find that specific address for the user, to direct it to another specified email server. See FAQ 4.1: Answer: Put | forward "$LOCAL"@bigbang.af.mil into ~alias/.qmail-default. (assuming bigbing is the secondary server) Regards, Uwe
