Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

My solution: I have set up the backup mx system as usual and then do a esmtpd stop. A simple script (executed once a few minutes) tests availability of the primary mx system (just connect, HELO and QUIT). If the primary seems down, esmtpd start gets executed. When the primary is there again,

Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:44 +0100, Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] wrote: My solution: I have set up the backup mx system as usual and then do a esmtpd stop. A simple script (executed once a few minutes) tests availability of the primary mx system (just connect, HELO and QUIT). If the

[courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

Hi, I use courier-mta at another machine which acts as a backup-mx. It doesn't have any local users, just a few domains in its esmtacceptmailfor. This works great so long, but I'd like to pipe all mails through spamassassin and clamassassin. A setup using maildrop and xfilter already exists

Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] writes: Hi, I use courier-mta at another machine which acts as a backup-mx. It doesn't have any local users, just a few domains in its esmtacceptmailfor. This works great so long, but I'd like to pipe all mails through spamassassin and clamassassin. A

Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

Any ideas? Yes. Get rid of your backup MX. A backup MX is no longer needed on the modern Internet. Very funny. -- - All-Things-Open Projektgruppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

hi On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] wrote: Yes. Get rid of your backup MX. A backup MX is no longer needed on the modern Internet. Very funny. He's right, unless your backup MX can reject mail for non-existent users at your domain instead of accepting it, so you

Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] wrote: Any ideas? Yes. Get rid of your backup MX. A backup MX is no longer needed on the modern Internet. Very funny. What makes you think it's a joke? I'll admit, I have a backup MX at the site where I work, but that's only for political reasons. A

Re: [courier-users] filtering mail in a backup-mx

Hi. Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 08:39 schrieb Gordon Messmer: A backup MX's job is to accept mail when your primary system can't, but remote sites are going to queue mail and retry delivery anyway. You're not going to hurt site reliability by taking down you backup MX. Two things here: 1.