Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-09 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 8/8/2012 1:32 πμ, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:58:41AM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: A question: Could we use the format: /etc/postfix/transportmap example.com relay:[mail.example.com], relay:[mail2.example.com] No. As documented. to force relaying to*both* those

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-09 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:15:45PM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: /etc/postfix/transportmap example.com relay:[mail.example.com], relay:[mail2.example.com] No. As documented. to force relaying to*both* those servers (mail AND mail2) at the same time? According to the documentation, I don't

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Nikolaos Milas: to force relaying to*both* those servers (mail AND mail2) at the same time? According to the documentation, I don't see that's possible (it seems only one transport:nexthop definition is acceptable), but can we achieve this somehow (except using always_bcc on mail.example.com)?

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-08 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 8/8/2012 3:41 πμ, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Yes, this is not a Postfix issue but a mail store issue. Nikolaos, what mail server are you using? Cyrus, Dovecot, other? As Viktor points out, building an HA mail server is not trivial. But we can probably point you to HA docs, and mailing lists,

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-08 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 8/8/2012 12:24 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: It's Dovecot 2.0. Addendum: We use Maildir and the load is low (aside spam). Only about 250 users/mailboxes (4G each). All servers are CentOS 5.8 (planning move to 6.3). Currently we have only one internal mail server (Postfix/Dovecot),

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2012 4:24 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: On 8/8/2012 3:41 πμ, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Yes, this is not a Postfix issue but a mail store issue. Nikolaos, what mail server are you using? Cyrus, Dovecot, other? As Viktor points out, building an HA mail server is not trivial. But we can

Failover gateway server

2012-08-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
Hello, We are setting up a gateway server (mx.example.com) to serve as primary MX (for domain example.com). It will receive mail from the Internet and forward (relay) it using: transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transportmap where: /etc/postfix/transportmap example.com

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-07 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:24:37PM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: I was wondering whether we could set up this server in a way so it can forward (relay) all mail to mail.example.com AND, if (and only if) this is temporarily down, then: 1. Keep incoming mail in queue until it can contact

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 7/8/2012 3:48 μμ, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: This is difficult to automate reliably... Thank you Victor for all the valuable info. I see. A question: Could we use the format: /etc/postfix/transportmap example.com relay:[mail.example.com], relay:[mail2.example.com] to force relaying to

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-07 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:58:41AM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: A question: Could we use the format: /etc/postfix/transportmap example.com relay:[mail.example.com], relay:[mail2.example.com] No. As documented. to force relaying to *both* those servers (mail AND mail2) at the same time?

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/7/2012 5:32 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:58:41AM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: ... A second question: Is anyone aware of any (Linux) smart script automating (at least to some extent) reliably enough detection of a mail server failure (to avoid re-inventing the