[SLUG] Email Server Questions
Hi all, Assuming this arrives,(sadly a dubious prospect seemingly) I'm getting jack of the rubbish that passes for tech support and mail serving through bigpond.com I've been losing incoming mail for days, and i've had enough. How hard is it to set a machine up as a secondary mail server ? I'm wishing to setup my linux box as a fully fledged mail server, and setup a seperate machine as a secondary mail server incase the adsl link goes down or changes ip. But how do i get sendmail to accept mail as a secondary mail server ? Jason -- GnuPG Key 2450EEDC Jason Rennie[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 1A2B 5E34 B45A 2871 A488 99C7 7579 5FFC 2450 EEDC -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Email Server Questions
As I understand it, you don't. You just set it up as a mail server that collects the mail and passes it onto the main later, or have your clients poll it as well. However, it still relies on bigpond, or whoever provides your MX records listing your secondary mail server in their nameserver and if the problem is their nameserving, then you are still stuffed. Thanks terry, thats what i wanted to know. Funny how quickly this went around after i got off the phone bitching to tech support and being told nothing was wrong. Jason -- GnuPG Key 2450EEDC Jason Rennie[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 1A2B 5E34 B45A 2871 A488 99C7 7579 5FFC 2450 EEDC -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Email Server Questions
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Terry Collins generated: Jason Rennie wrote: But how do i get sendmail to accept mail as a secondary mail server ? As I understand it, you don't. You just set it up as a mail server that collects the mail and passes it onto the main later, or have your clients poll it as well. That is how I saw it; you set your secondary server exactly the same as the primary one, but perhaps with a cron job that polls the primary server, and sends the spool off to it, so your users need have only one place to collect their mail from. -- jamesw Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. -- R. Kadel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
