Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread michael M. Honse
I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well.. BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC.. Anyone have a how-to for that ?.. Many thanks in advance.

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:22:05AM -0800, michael M. Honse wrote: > I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well.. > BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail > server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC.. > Anyone have a how-to for t

RE: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Greg Owen
> I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well.. > BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail > should the real mail > server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC.. > Anyone have a how-to for that ?.. Build a second server with qmail. On the seco

RE: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Greg Owen
> Build a second server with qmail. On the second > server, instead of listing your domain(s) in 'locals' > and 'rcpthosts', list your domain in 'smtproutes' and > 'rcpthosts'. 'smtproutes' is described in 'man > qmail-remote'. Chris Johnson just posted without the 'smtproutes' h

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:42:10PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote: > > Build a second server with qmail. On the second > > server, instead of listing your domain(s) in 'locals' > > and 'rcpthosts', list your domain in 'smtproutes' and > > 'rcpthosts'. 'smtproutes' is described in 'man > > qmail-rem

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:22:05AM -0800, michael M. Honse wrote: > I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well.. > BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail > server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC.. > Anyone have a how-to for

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-03-29 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:55:25PM +, Uwe Ohse wrote: [snip] > > See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike > backup mail servers. 'file not found.' Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to sh

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-04-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:57:02PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike > > backup mail servers. > > 'file not found.' Ugh. Fixed. Regards, Uwe

RE: Need a little insite please

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Owen
> > > See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike > > > backup mail servers. > > > > 'file not found.' > > Ugh. Fixed. Based on my reading of that, you don't dislike backup MX servers, you just dislike ISPs who misconfigure them. There's lots of other (good)