At 07:32 PM 06/12/99 -0500, Bob C. Ruddy wrote:
I'm looking to set up a secondary mail server for when my primary is
unreachable. I don't want qmail to deliver the email though just queue it
up till the primary mail server comes online. I looked through the faq but
did not see anything. Can
I'm looking to set up a secondary mail server for when my primary is
unreachable. I don't want qmail to deliver the email though just queue it
up till the primary mail server comes online. I looked through the faq but
did not see anything. Can someone point me in the right direction.
Bob,
This is a common use for mailservers. It's called backup MX, I believe.
There are two ways to do this. Naturally, you want to have your DNS
looking something like this:
# host domain.net
domain.net mail is handled (pri=5) by mx5.domain.net
domain.net mail is handled (pri=10) by
