On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Toby Reiter wrote: > > Hi all, > First off I wanted to thank Davide for a great product and for > helping me with archiving issues last week. > > Ok, on to my question: > I have XMail running on Windows NT serving as a back-up mail server. > Yesterday our main computer (also NT) needed to be restarted a couple > of times, and so our backup server was receiving all mail being sent. > I've confirmed that the server actually does work as a backup, which > is great. > > But someone trying to send something to one of our users yesterday > sent us the following error message she received: > > Failed to deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > SMTP module(domain domain.org) reports: > host backup.mailserverdomain.com says: > 550 Mailbox unavailable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Please > open mailserverdomain.com/smtp_errors.html to get > more informations about this error > > My question is: I had thought that it was necessary to set up all of > the domains to be relayed on the back up server, and that as long as > no accounts were set up, it would know not to try to deliver the > mail, and would instead simply hold it (somewhere?) waiting to relay > it to the main server when it detected that it was live again. I my > understanding of this not correct? I've never received (nor heard of > other users receiving) similar messages. Is there something I may > have misconfigured?
No, you have to have your domains handled as customdomains, with an smtprelay line towards you main server. You shouldn't have any domain inside domains.tab - Davide - 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]
