On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Brad Knowles wrote:

> On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Jim Hickstein wrote:
>
>> Whatever happened to ETRN?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_SMTP#ETRN
>
> Indeed.  Both sendmail and postfix (and presumably also at least some 
> other MTAs) allow you to set queueing periods on a per-domain or 
> per-recipient basis (or some mix thereof), and you can set the queue 
> retry to be a very extended period of time -- even infinite, if you 
> desire.
>
> Running this on a backup MX server would definitely serve the same 
> purpose as UUCP.  It does require some configuration support on the part 
> of the operator of the backup MX, but that's about it.

this definantly sounds like an option (and the possibility of this is why 
I was asking for other options besides UUCP)

so does anyone have a pointer to a cookbook configuration for this?

David Lang
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