Hi guys out there, two weeks ago I have configured my mailserver to be a backup for someone elses mailserver, first I made it work by just adding a new domain for which mail was accepted and setting the mailserver to which the mail has to be sent. So far so good it works, but the mailserver of my friend has been dead for almost a week, so you quess.. the time-out of the mail expired and all mail was returned to the original senders apologizing that the mail could not be delivered. To avoid this I should have to make the timeout a little longer (in the most ideal case infinite). But if I do that and I send a mail to someone (with a wrong address) on a foreign server, I would not get any notice that the address might be wrong or that the other mailserver does not exist or any other message you should receive. So this is not the solution to run as a real backup. Thus I thought out a solution for this problem. I am creating a deamon which looks if there is mail for a backup mailuser, if so it checks if the host is online and will accept the mail, and if this condition has been reached als mail will be read from the new directory and will be posted to the mailserver. To make this package rock I want to ask you al if there is something what you expect from such a solution. Sure, there will be a control panel tool too so e-smith users can easily configure a backup mailaccount for a friend or something. greetings, Raymond -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
