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: 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
do when I get the backup MX host up and running is to add the domains to the "rcpthosts" file, and not in the "locals" or "virtualdomains" files.   I do not anticipate the main mail server going down, but I figure it is always good to have a "Plan B"

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 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