And after you have this set up, you will want to test this no doubt. If the customer server has been offline for a few hours, the retry may not be quick enough for you so you can telnet from the customer server to your relay server on port 25 and issue the following command: ETRN youdontneedtoknow.com.au
Then your server will establish connection to the customer server on another TCP session. So you can close your telnet session. Rob :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Healy Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:37 PM To: 'xmail@xmailserver.org' Subject: [xmail] Re: Backup server Hi Liam, You only partially have right how to setup a backup mail server. The dns entries are fine, but you need to change the way you have your xmail configured. What you want to do is remove the domain name and user from your server as you currently have it setup and create a custom domain ( http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#custom_domain_mail_processing ) with an "smtprelay" statement pointing to your clients server. Then you may want to adjust the command line ( http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#command_line ) settings for smail to set how often and how long your server will keep trying to forward undelivered mail before giving up. This setting will affect all undelivered mail so find a balance between mail going to your client and all other mail. Bill >---------- >From: BLITS Xmail[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:49 AM >To: xmail@xmailserver.org >Subject: [xmail] Backup server > >Hi all! > >I have recently set up a bit of an ad-hoc backup system for a client's >server. The best way to explain what I've done is to do it in sections. > >DNS Records for my client's domain: > youdontneedtoknow.com.au. MX IN 3600 mail.youdontneedtoknow.com.au. >[Preference = 10] > youdontneedtoknow.com.au. MX IN 3600 mail.blits.com.au. [Preference = >5000] > > >His server: >is set up just as any Joe Blog would have their server set up > >My server: >has youdontneedtoknow.com.au entered as a domain name and a single user under >it. This user has an alias of *, is set to store messages and then forward >them on to a third party email address. > >The idea? If his server goes down, mine catches the mail until it comes back >online. We can sort the mess out later :-) > >The problem? I like my client, and I want to send him emails. But every >time I do, they end up in the third party email account. Obviously this is >because I'm using my server as an SMTP server and it's seeing the address >internally and not feeling the need to look any further. > >How can I solve this without changing my outgoing server every time I want to >send him mail? > >Thankyou in advance!!! > >Liam >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
