> > The problem occurs when my primary server goes out, leaving the other > > two alive. At that point, the secondary server (mail.friend.org) gets my > > mail and looks up the available MXes. Since mail.domain.org is not > > available, but mail.isp.net is, mail.friend.org immediately forwards it > > on to the tertiary server (mail.isp.net). > > This should not happen. What is the configuration? >
The secondary server is set up with my domain in relay_to_domains. It will relay to my host if my host is up, just fine. And it used to queue for my domain before I had the ISP acting as a tertiary backup. I added them since my friend and I are on the same access point for the same ISP, so if our net goes down, we're both out. The relay messages seem to get sent out on the dnslookup router, which looks like: dnslookup: driver = dnslookup domains = ! +local_domains transport = remote_smtp ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8 : [host ip]/32 no_more So it looks like mail.friend.org is doing a DNS lookup, finding mail.isp.net to be available, and going on its merry way. It looks like ignore_target_hosts is an IP address list. I don't have control over the IP of my isp's mailserver, so i'd rather stick with the domain name they have. Thanks, -- Justin -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
