Hi everyone, I just want to set up a backup mail server for my 2 years old main mail server (a kind of birthday gift ;) ).
Since I achieved to configure the main server without reading too much the EXIM documentation, I said to myself it was a good pretext to dive into it! What I have mainly understood is firstly that when a mail server is looking for an external domain, a dnslookup router is looking for the highest priority MX or SRV entry of my domain zone file... it can only look for an A entry if nothing else exists. To set à backup mail server, another MX entry with lower priority should be written in the zone file. No problem with it! And now I can install a second exim on a friend's machine (Sb as Server B). The first configuration I have thought: I tell Sb to respond for mydomain.org (in the domainlist) and configure routers to send to mydomain.org (with a dnslookup or manual router). Thus, my mail will be sent to my "master" server in a time defined by the "retry" part of my configuration file. And nothing else, even not any local delivery. Do you think it should work? Thanks! -- Fabien LUCE Clef PGP: http://lutix.org/data/ftg_lutix_pub.asc -- ## List details at https://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/
