Re: QMAIL E-MAIL BACKUP SYSTEM

2001-07-28 Thread Nick Fish
On 2001.07.26 16:11 alexus wrote: > hello everyone > > I have 3 different servers at different locations on different > backbones. > ...now what I need to do is somehow implement some kind of redundancy > on > e-mail system ... each of domains that hosts on my servers has all of > those > server

QMAIL E-MAIL BACKUP SYSTEM

2001-07-26 Thread alexus
hello everyone I have 3 different servers at different locations on different backbones. ...now what I need to do is somehow implement some kind of redundancy on e-mail system ... each of domains that hosts on my servers has all of those servers as ns and mx records in dns ... the question is.. i

Re: Backup-mx

2001-07-22 Thread Henning Brauer
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:49:35PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:44:35PM +0200, Tue N?rgaard wrote: > > HI! > > > It looks like the primary server is configured wrong and / or the dns > > records are > > > configured wrong.. can you tell me the configuration of your prima

Re: Backup-mx

2001-07-22 Thread Ahmad Ridha
to check about that the primary really accepts mail for > narnias.dk > CMIIW, but primary mx has to has lower number which means higher priority. To configure a backup-mx, you only need to put narnias.dk in rcpthosts of the backup-mx server so that it will accept mails for narnias.dk when

Re: Backup-mx

2001-07-22 Thread Lukas Beeler
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:44:35PM +0200, Tue N?rgaard wrote: > HI! > > It looks like the primary server is configured wrong and / or the dns > records are > > configured wrong.. can you tell me the configuration of your primary > server ? > > narnias.dk. 43200 IN MX 50 mai

Re: Backup-mx

2001-07-22 Thread Lukas Beeler
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:32:59PM +0200, Tue N?rgaard wrote: > Hi! > > I´m trying to get my mail server act as a backup-mx for at domain called > narnias.dk. > > I have put narnias.dk into the rcpthosts file and restarted qmail. > > My problem is that my server i

Backup-mx

2001-07-22 Thread Tue Nørgaard
Hi! I´m trying to get my mail server act as a backup-mx for at domain called narnias.dk. I have put narnias.dk into the rcpthosts file and restarted qmail. My problem is that my server is the server mx with the highest number, so my server is suppose to put the messages into queue, and send

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Adam Jacob wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: > > And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which > > case, what was the point of having a backup server again? > > Which i

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Adam Jacob
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: > And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which > case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Which is why you deploy this with something like a NetApp filer, that lets you deliver to NF

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Cathey
qmail2qmail3 | | | \___ | __/ \|/ | --- <- gigabit 'nfs' net with backup 100Mb net || NFS1 NFS2 I'm looking at using LVS (Linux Virtual Server) to handle the load balancing/clusterin

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Palmer
And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:57 AM 6/13/01 +0300, you wrote: >Alternatively you can run two SMTP servers and one POP server. Do NAT for >the two and

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-12 Thread Joe
: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:15 AM Subject: Re: backup mail server help > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: > > What I'd like to accomplish is if Server A is unavail

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-08 Thread Charles Cazabon
Hank Wethington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd like to accomplish is if Server A is unavailable, then mail goes to > server B. Once A is back up, server B sends the mail back to server A. Okay. > Does this make sense? Eminent sense. > I know about the MX records in DNS, but how do I ma

RE: backup mail server help

2001-06-08 Thread Willy De la Court
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hank, on the backup just put the domains in rcpthosts file NOT in locals and NOT in virtualdomains this will effectively configure the backup mail server to accept mail and try to deliver it to the primary. Make sure your dns records are correct

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-08 Thread Henning Brauer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: > What I'd like to accomplish is if Server A is unavailable, then mail goes to > server B. Once A is back up, server B sends the mail back to server A. Does On server B, add all domains in question to rcpthosts, but NOT to locals or

backup mail server help

2001-06-08 Thread Hank Wethington
I think my mind is unstable from trying to figure this out on my own. I've got a main mail server (FreeBSD 4.3/qmail 1.03/vpop/sweb/imap/blah blah blah) and a second on a separate network (RH Linux 6.2/qmail 1.03/qmail-pop3d). What I'd like to accomplish is if Server A is unavailable, then mail g

Re: backup server

2001-06-06 Thread Greg White
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

backup server

2001-06-06 Thread David Ryan
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 qu

Re: Backup mail server.

2001-05-29 Thread Greg White
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:21:57AM +1000, Grant wrote: > I accidentally deleted an email and couldn't find it on the qmail > archives. The question is: > > What do I need to do for a backup mx record to store emails until the > first mx comes back. I put the domain in r

Backup mail server.

2001-05-29 Thread Grant
I accidentally deleted an email and couldn't find it on the qmail archives. The question is: What do I need to do for a backup mx record to store emails until the first mx comes back. I put the domain in rcpthosts, but not in locals, as I want it to store them until the first mx comes back

Re: Backup

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Sill
reliable for mail. If your disk dies, there will be very >little overlap between the messages saved in the last backup and the >messages that were lost. Restoring an old queue will probably result in redelivering some messages, but it will recover long-undeliverable messages. To me, a few

Re: Backup

2001-04-22 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Chorvat, Vladimir wrote: > Have anyone some solution for backup qmail files (opened files) without >stopping services? Do you mean: - - back up qmail configuration files? They're not being written during operation, so that's perfectly sa

Backup

2001-04-22 Thread Chorvat, Vladimir
Helo everybody, my name is Vladimir Chorvat I am an administrator of linux system. I would like to make one question. Have anyone some solution for backup qmail files (opened files) without stopping services? Many thanks for any idea. Vladimir

Re: Backup

2001-04-22 Thread Alex Pennace
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:40:49PM +0200, Chorvat, Vladimir wrote: > Have anyone some solution for backup qmail files (opened files) without > stoping services? http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html#backups

Backup

2001-04-22 Thread Chorvat, Vladimir
Helo everybody, my name is Vladimir Chorvat I am administrator of linux system. I would like to make one question. Have anyone some solution for backup qmail files (opened files) without stoping services? Many thanks for any idea. Vladimir

Re: Backup Servers.

2001-04-03 Thread Sean Chittenden
]: > > I have 2 qmail servers. > > > > One sitting on .10 and the other on .11 > > > > Both are diffrent machines. > > > > Whats the best way to make .11 a backup server? Would I have to add the > > username's/passwords to both servers or what?

Re: Backup Servers.

2001-04-03 Thread Kirill Miazine
* Alan Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010403 21:44]: > I have 2 qmail servers. > > One sitting on .10 and the other on .11 > > Both are diffrent machines. > > Whats the best way to make .11 a backup server? Would I have to add the > username's/passwords to

Backup Servers.

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Lee
I have 2 qmail servers. One sitting on .10 and the other on .11 Both are diffrent machines. Whats the best way to make .11 a backup server? Would I have to add the username's/passwords to both servers or what? Regards

Re: Backup mail server

2001-03-16 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ryan Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm assuming the best way to implement a backup mail server that will queue > mail in the event of a problem with the best MX would be to set the backup > server as 2nd MX (obviously), and then add all the appropriate domains to

Backup mail server

2001-03-16 Thread Ryan Pape
I'm assuming the best way to implement a backup mail server that will queue mail in the event of a problem with the best MX would be to set the backup server as 2nd MX (obviously), and then add all the appropriate domains to rcpthosts. Will that cause mail to be cached automatically, or

Re: Turn off Msglog ; Backup Mail Queues?

2001-02-05 Thread Charles Cazabon
l and I > have to reinstall Qmail, what is the best way to backup the queues so the > new installation will handle the rest of the deliveries? Why can't you use it as is? If its the extra load due to queuing the msglog copies, rebuild the RPM without that option -- you'll have to

Turn off Msglog ; Backup Mail Queues?

2001-02-05 Thread Brandon Yu
ut am having no luck. Is it possible to turn it off? If I can't use this current install and I have to reinstall Qmail, what is the best way to backup the queues so the new installation will handle the rest of the deliveries? Thanks

Re: mail backup

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
r with this program, but any file copier should do, even plain >old "cp -r". Amanda (www.amanda.org) is a network backup system that uses dump or GNU tar. It works quite well. -Dave

Re: mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Kris Kelley
Takayuki Murai wrote: > I am referring to ~user/Maildir. > Some of the user use POP, and the other use IMAP. And, I assume that incoming mails store > into ~/Maildir/new. My question is: > if there are new coming mail storing into ~/Maildir/new while backup job is working, >

RE: mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Takayuki Murai
r/new. My question is: if there are new coming mail storing into ~/Maildir/new while backup job is working, what problem is going to happen. If there is no problem, it means that those new coming mail is not backed up? Or, if there is some error, what are they? Does Amanda works fine? Thank you taka

Re: mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am wondering that how to backup mail directory. I am having trouble with >how to do it. Please give me some idea what you are doing. Which mail directory are you referring to? /var/qmail? /var/spool/mail? ~user/Maildir? And what kind of trouble are yo

mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Takayuki Murai
Hello all, I am wondering that how to backup mail directory. I am having trouble with how to do it. Please give me some idea what you are doing. Taka Murai Takayuki Murai -$BB<0f!!N4G7(B- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backup

2001-01-31 Thread Takayuki Murai
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Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:34:40PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Michael Hornby wrote: > > > > > My ultimate goal is to have my home server accept any mail that is being > > > sent to any e-mail address being hosted on the main server, and t

Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2001-01-05 Thread David L. Nicol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Michael Hornby wrote: > > > My ultimate goal is to have my home server accept any mail that is being > > sent to any e-mail address being hosted on the main server, and to > > indefinitely try to forward it to the main server. This way, when the

Re: Question Reguarding RCPTHOSTS on Backup MX Server

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:41:23PM -0700, Ken Jansons wrote: > Once I add a new domain into the rcpthosts file, do I need to kill qmail and > restart it (as in with /etc/rc.d/qmail restart), or will QMail automatically > begin to receive messages and place them in the mail queue, without being > r

Question Reguarding RCPTHOSTS on Backup MX Server

2001-01-02 Thread Ken Jansons
Hello,   I am getting ready to set up a backup QMail server, which will serve as the MX 20 host for some of my domains.  I have the main mail server all set up with QMail and VPOPMail, and it is working flawlessly.  I have done research on this topic and understand that what I will need to

Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread richard
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Michael Hornby wrote: > My ultimate goal is to have my home server accept any mail that is being > sent to any e-mail address being hosted on the main server, and to > indefinitely try to forward it to the main server. This way, when the main > server returns, it will receive

Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2000 00:40 schrieb Dennis: [qmail + courier-imap] > thats a good idea for pop servers but not for imap. can't see you problem. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg www.bsws.d

RE: "Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread Dennis
thats a good idea for pop servers but not for imap. > -Original Message- > From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 28 December 2000 10:44 AM > To: Mike Jackson; Michael Hornby > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Su

Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2000 00:28 schrieb Mike Jackson: > Michael Hornby wrote: > > I am running qmail on a server which will be going down shortly for > > upgrades. I have a unix machine running at my house (static IP address) > > that I would like to use as a "

Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread Mike Jackson
Michael Hornby wrote: > > I am running qmail on a server which will be going down shortly for > upgrades. I have a unix machine running at my house (static IP address) that > I would like to use as a "backup" server. I plan on changing the MX record > for my domain to

"Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread Michael Hornby
I am running qmail on a server which will be going down shortly for upgrades. I have a unix machine running at my house (static IP address) that I would like to use as a "backup" server. I plan on changing the MX record for my domain to point to my home machine, and to have all the mail

Re: qmail as backup server

2000-12-23 Thread Vladimir Vucinic
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

Re: qmail as backup server

2000-12-23 Thread joshua stein
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

qmail as backup server

2000-12-23 Thread Vladimir Vucinic
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: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Louis Theran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Stumpf) writes: > simply by having qmail-smtpd read in about 700 MB rcpthosts and > qmail-remote read in a 300 KB smtproutes file on every incarnation. > a cdb would do any good here, as the lookup would be faster, but a cdb > is even bigger than the plain files. When q

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Alex Pennace
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:28:18AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: > However one of our mailservers is sitting on an elder machine with only > one disk (we're moving it to a newer/fast machine with raid by now) > and what I did is experience the last weeks was a performance loss > simply by having qma

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:00:08AM +, Mark Delany wrote: > > Reason being, anyone can point their domain's MX records to your server > > and then freely send mail to/through it. Nope ;-) If I would implement it I'd have a small file e.g. "mxips" which would contain IPs/IP ranges and only if a

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:49:54PM -0500, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > Sendmail has a switch to turn this on, which is off by default... > > Reason being, anyone can point their domain's MX records to your server > and then freely send mail to/through it. > > I'm curious to know if qmail starts havin

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Jamin A. Brown
getting quite big, adding all the domains > we're doing POP Boxes for and those our customer request backup MX > for. > > Has anyone thought of/patched qmail-smtpd to accept messages based on > the IP of the MX records? > > Are there any pitfalls that I don't think of in

rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Markus Stumpf
Our rcpthosts file ist getting quite big, adding all the domains we're doing POP Boxes for and those our customer request backup MX for. Has anyone thought of/patched qmail-smtpd to accept messages based on the IP of the MX records? Are there any pitfalls that I don't think of in

Re: Backup Advice Need !!!

2000-10-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Mark Lo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to know what do i have to backup for my mail server ?? Copy all of the file systems to another medium using, e.g., dump or tar. In the event of a restoration, you'll want to either empty the queue (thus "lo

Backup Advice Need !!!

2000-10-18 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I would like to know what do i have to backup for my mail server ?? Thank you Mark

email backup?

2000-09-03 Thread ideal
How I can use qmail to implement email backup? I mean I use two machine whick both run qmail.One work as the other's back. When hostA shut down, HostB can receive the mail and when hosta is up ,retransfer the email received to the HostA. How should I setup DNS server and qmail s

Re: backup server for spooling

2000-08-21 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 21-Aug-2000, 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 Put the domain(s) in the rcpthosts (or

Re: backup server for spooling

2000-08-21 Thread James Raftery
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

backup server for spooling

2000-08-21 Thread Eric Peters
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: one SMTP Server Backup

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Cox
Luis wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I have a pretty situation in my ISP: > > I Have to SMTP Server for one domain: > the first has de MX=1 > the second has the MX=2 > > I need to create one solution where when the second server is up, all > the incoming messages on the first server would be

one SMTP Server Backup

2000-08-08 Thread Luis
Hello Everyone, I have a pretty situation in my ISP: I Have to SMTP Server for one domain: the first has de MX=1 the second has the MX=2 I need to create one solution where when the second server is up, all the incoming messages on the first server would be moved to the second server and, when

Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-07 Thread John White
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:53:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just put the domains in rcpthosts and either have a single all domains > entry or define the specific domains which must be forwarded in the > smtproutes file. This way, the qmail box becomes the main MX where all mail > go

Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-07 Thread pgregg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Charles Roten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm trying to set up a redundant "store-and-forward" mail server. | This box will reside much farther towards our network periphery | than the present Exchange server we are currently using. We will | set up a *seconda

Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
James R Grinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 4 August 2000 at 00:22:25 +0100 > Charles Roten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What I need is a configuration such that *all* emails coming into > > the foo.com domain will be stored and, once the network link to > > the primary server is back u

Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-03 Thread James R Grinter
James Raftery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If one week is too short, put the number of seconds after which messages > should bounce in control/queuelifetime. > > This is standard configuration for a backup MX. [I wibbled on about maildir2smtp] James's advice

Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-03 Thread James R Grinter
Charles Roten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I need is a configuration such that *all* emails coming into > the foo.com domain will be stored and, once the network link to > the primary server is back up, will be forwarded. There doesn't > seem to be any information at http://www.qmail.org

Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-03 Thread James Raftery
ode for, say, a day or two, the intent is that > this box will act as a "cache" until connectivity is restored, > then will forward the email it has been storing to the again- > available Exchange server. Put the domains you wish the backup box to accept mail for in control/

Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server

2000-08-03 Thread Charles Roten
I'm trying to set up a redundant "store-and-forward" mail server. This box will reside much farther towards our network periphery than the present Exchange server we are currently using. We will set up a *secondary* MX record for it in DNS, so mail will only go to it if the primary is unava

Re: backup of server is timing out

2000-08-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
Sorry, wrong mailing list ;-). I haven't had my coffee yet. -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare Laboratories

backup of server is timing out

2000-08-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
I'm (still) getting request time-outs from the same server. Checking the client's amandad.debug reveals: amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: waiti

Users Backup

2000-06-05 Thread Edilmar Alves
Hi, I would like to backup the users I created with QMailAdmin (vpopmail users, not UNIX users). Is it only backup passwd file from vpopmail ? If I lost my server, the only thing I need to do is to override the vpopmail passwd ... begin:vcard n:Alves;Edilmar tel;fax:+55(67)741-4530 tel;work

Re: Backup logs

2000-05-30 Thread Paul Aviles
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Aviles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: Re: Backup logs > > Paul Aviles wrote: > > I know how to create backups for all incoming and outgoing messages by > > modifying the extra.h file, but it is possible to ta

Re: Backup logs

2000-05-30 Thread clemensF
> Paul Aviles: > I know how to create backups for all incoming and outgoing messages > by modifying the extra.h file, but it is possible to target only > certain accounts to do the backup on? This box has multiple virtual > domains and one of them wants to track incoming and ou

Re: Backup logs

2000-05-30 Thread J. I. Sendoro
incoming and outgoing messages by modifying the >extra.h file, but it is possible to target only certain accounts to do the backup on? > This box has multiple virtual domains and one of them wants to track incoming and >outgoing only for certain accounts. Using the extra.h copies e

Backup logs

2000-05-30 Thread Paul Aviles
I know how to create backups for all incoming and outgoing messages by modifying the extra.h file, but it is possible to target only certain accounts to do the backup on?  This box has multiple virtual domains and one of them wants to track incoming and outgoing only for certain accounts

Re: Backup

2000-05-16 Thread Dave Sill
Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a Newbie, this is my first time to use qmail server, So that >I don't know what do I have to backup for qmail. Please point me out >what do I have to backup for qmail in a daily backup operations. (also >running pop and smtp

Backup

2000-05-16 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I am a Newbie, this is my first time to use qmail server, So that I don't know what do I have to backup for qmail. Please point me out what do I have to backup for qmail in a daily backup operations. (also running pop and smtp at the same box) Thank You Mark

Re: BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-16 Thread wightman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Date:Mon, 15 May 2000 16:43:17 CDT > To: Jhun Hubac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From:"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: BACKUP POP SERVER [snip] > I don

Re: BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-15 Thread David L. Nicol
Make sure you have round-robin turned on in your DNS, assuming that both POP servers have the same name. If that doesn't work, bother half your users and have them change their settings to point to the second machine. I don't see what is saved by this arrangement, over having all the users conn

BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-14 Thread Jhun Hubac
Hi! Is there a way that I can back-up my pop server? I'm using qmail for my two servers (both have SMTP & POP3 service). No problem of having redundant SMTP servers but it seems that the MUA (clients) are polling on only 1 of the two servers. I'm using NIS/NFS to distribute information between t

Re: backup MX host

2000-04-22 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
sages will be saved > on backup MX host ? As many will fit on your disk partition that contains /var/qmail/queue. In other words you are only limited by the size of your disk. > And how long backup MX host store it in queue ? By default messages are stored for 1 week (604800 seconds). T

Re: backup MX host

2000-04-22 Thread Tomasz Antczak
mydomain.com >is _not_ in /var/qmail/controls/locals. OK. Thanks. But I have one question more. How many messages will be saved on backup MX host ? And how long backup MX host store it in queue ? -- Greets, Thomas

Re: backup MX host

2000-04-21 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* Ronny Haryanto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21 Apr 2000 12:08]: > > What I must do for in this situation on server1 and server2 ? > This question has been answered too often. Nothing on server1 and put > domain.com in ONLY rcpthosts on server2. Agreed. I have had several private queries this week as we

Re: backup MX host

2000-04-21 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 21-Apr-2000, Tomasz Antczak wrote: > If host server1 will be "unreachable" I would like to save mail > for mydomain.com on host server2, and when retransport this saved > mail to host server1 when it will be reachable again. > > What I must do for in this situation on server1 and server2 ? Th

Re: backup MX host

2000-04-21 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* Tomasz Antczak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21 Apr 2000 11:57]: > I have small problem with qmail. I have two serveres, both running > qmail 1.03. I set DNS for mydomain.com like that: > > IN MX 0 server1.mydomain.com. > IN MX 10 server2.mydomain.com

backup MX host

2000-04-21 Thread Tomasz Antczak
Hello, I have small problem with qmail. I have two serveres, both running qmail 1.03. I set DNS for mydomain.com like that: IN MX 0 server1.mydomain.com. IN MX 10 server2.mydomain.com. server1 IN A 10.10.10.1 server2

Re: Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But not always. My ISP (which shall remain nameless -- ;-) bounced an >email I sent myself from work after trying to deliver it for less than >an hour. To add insult to injury, the only reason they couldn't deliver >it was because of their own internal out

Re: Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:55:46 -0600 Yes seriously. Most MTA's will queue email for at least 3 days, so unless your hardware failure lasts that long then you should be fine. Andy But not always. My ISP (which shall remain nameless -

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:55:46AM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Gabriel Ambuehl on Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:58:00 +0300: > > > Do you mean this seriously? I can't see a problem with a secondary > > which is using exactly the same config (we normally clone our > > systems as the first one e

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:44:39 -0400 (EDT) > I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My > question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event > that it goes down or loos

RE: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Greg Owen
> I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My > question is how do I become a backup for that other server in > the event that it goes down or looses connectivity?? Firstly, consider why you are setting up a secondary. Does it offer any advantages ove

RE: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Greg Owen
> This is a bad idea. Why? Because you're setting yourself up for the > situation a friend was just in. His main server went down, and the > secondary kicked in. Unfortunately, the secondary server had become > misconfigured (or was never configured correctly in the first place) > and his emai

Re: Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Gabriel Ambuehl on Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:58:00 +0300: > Do you mean this seriously? I can't see a problem with a secondary > which is using exactly the same config (we normally clone our systems > as the first one except for the lack of the entries in local or > virtual... As long as your

Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
> This is a bad idea. Why? Because you're setting yourself up for the > situation a friend was just in. His main server went down, and the > secondary kicked in. Unfortunately, the secondary server had become > misconfigured (or was never configured correctly in the first place) > and his emai

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Russell Nelson
TAG writes: > I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My > question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event > that it goes down or looses connectivity?? > > I have added entries into DNS so as the two severs are secondary M

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0200, TAG wrote: > Hi, > > I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My > question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event > that it goes down or looses connectivity?? > > I have added entri

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