Hi Gregg, On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Gregg Lain wrote:
> I am setting up 2 VPS's for redundancy - I am trying to work this out: > > Primary - exim, its the first MX preference > Secondary exim, second Mx preference + same local accounts as on Primary > > Looking to setup the following router that would be global > > mail arrives either locally or comes in that matches local user, then > looks at DNS first to see where to deliver, sees that primary is on > other server and off it goes. if the primary server was down, the second > MX record points to this server, then the delivery is made there. > > I don't want to relay, but actually have it delivered - so that its > readable during the primary server outage. You might find some of the tricks from here useful: http://tinderblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/backup-mail-exchangers/ You could probably use this ACL as-is, and just add your domains to local_domains on the second MX, so that the default local_delivery router will accept the emails. Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <[email protected]> Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \__/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU : free your mind & your software | -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
