While I've never done this before, I'll bet you have to add the hostname
of the primary to the /etc/sendmail.cw file. This file contains all the
aliases to your machine. If you don't, then the mail client will get a
"we do not relay" error when they send mail.
-CJO-
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Jim Roland wrote:
> I have a question that relates to this: How does one setup sendmail as a
> secondary mailhost for multiple domains so that if the primary mail server
> goes down, the secondary will queue mail until the primary goes back
> online? I have the MX records setup in DNS, but is there anything that
> needs to be done to sendmail.cf to tell it that it's a secondary?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, James Clifford wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 05:36:55 +0000 ( )
> > From: James Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Sangohn Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: How to queue mails?
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Sangohn Christian wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there !
> > >
> > > How can one first queue mail messages and send them automatically as soon as a
>PPP conection is established?
> > >
> > > Thank
> >
> > There's a mail queue howto that details how to set up sendmail to queue
> > messages for delivery at a later date.
> >
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> > James Clifford | http://www.tripod.com/~MrBobo
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> >
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