update to relaying redundancy

1999-07-28 Thread jwelsh
ive finally figured out how to get my qmail box to relay to different hosts depending on wether it can ping them or not.. Its not pretty and I havent tested it extensively yet, but it seems to work.. If anyone has any suggestions/improvements, please let me know.. The thing is, you have 2

Re: update to relaying redundancy

1999-07-28 Thread Tillman Hodgson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guess it would be better for it to test for an opening on port 25 instead of a ping cause a server can obviously still be up (pingable) and not be running SMTP services. If you know how to do that, please let me know. If you grab a copy of netsaint

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-26 Thread torben fjerdingstad
I wish smtproutes could take a prioritized list of destinations. Our workstations has jam.net.uni-c.dk defined as "smarthost", using smtproutes, which contains :jam.net.uni-c.dk If that host is down, my outgoing mail is deferred, and I am not notified. It would be nice if having

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-26 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, torben fjerdingstad wrote: I wish smtproutes could take a prioritized list of destinations. Our workstations has jam.net.uni-c.dk defined as "smarthost", using smtproutes, which contains :jam.net.uni-c.dk If that host is down, my outgoing mail is deferred, and I am

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-26 Thread Sergei Kolobov
torben fjerdingstad wrote: I wish smtproutes could take a prioritized list of destinations. [snip] If that host is down, my outgoing mail is deferred, and I am not notified. [snip] What are my options? I cannot send mail out directly because of a firewall. Assuming your firewall also runs

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-26 Thread Russell Nelson
torben fjerdingstad writes: I wish smtproutes could take a prioritized list of destinations. Point smtproutes at a domain name which has multiple A record. Not exactly what you asked for, but a reasonable facsimile. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr sells

relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread jwelsh
I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes down or crashes, whatever. Is there a hack to allow qmail to relay somewhere else if that host

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes down or crashes, whatever. Is there a hack to

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread Ken Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes down or crashes, whatever. Is there a hack to allow qmail to

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread Dave Sill
Ken Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you were somehow able to route the email thru qmtp to a qmtp server, you can specify multiple qmtp servers. If the first connection is dead it tries the next line in the file. I think you're thinking of qmQp, not qmTp. The file is qmqpservers. See the

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:48:52AM -0500, Ken Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread jwelsh
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Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread Sam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes down or crashes, whatever. Is there a hack to allow qmail to