On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
> "Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
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> > > And add a line in control/smtproutes too; otherwise you'll
> > > bounce messages as qmail mistakenly interprets that it is supposed
> > > to be the end recipient. This starts happening only after you
> > > actually modify the MX records.
> > >
> >
> > No. An smtproutes entry is NOT needed. The only time you would have a
> > problem would be if you placed your server at the same MX or higher
> > priority as the machine you were serving as the secondary for. (Remeber
> > that a HIGHER MX number is a LOWER priority.)
> >
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> > Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Senior Systems Administrator
> > localconnect(sm)
> > http://www.localconnect.net/
>
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> Yes, that is what I thought, too, until I did it. The primary MX has
> priority five, the secondary has priority 20, and I set the qmail box
> to have priority 200 and what happened to the occasional piece of
> e-mail that got to it? It was bounced, with a message that said
> "Although I am listed as the primary mx for this host, I haven't a
> clue what to do with this piece of e-mail." (from memory.)
>
Then something was wrong with either your DNS setup or the name server
that the qmail secondary MX server was using. My instructions for ONLY
adding it to the rcpthosts file were based on it working exactly that way
for several domains for which I do just exactly what I said and they work
exactly as documented. Mail is queued and forwarded when the primary
comes back on line.
Why did your qmail box think it was the best preference MX host?
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> After concernedly rereading the FAQ I added lines to smtproutes
> and things are now working properly: the occasional piece of overflow
> that
> wanders into the box in question is now held briefly and then forwarded.
>
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> The fact that I had no "locals" file may have had something to do with
> it; although the documentation seems to say that a locals file is not
> needed if you only accept local mail for "me."
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> The moral of the story? Set up test cases before altering your
> production
> systems, no matter how well-documented and "authoritatively" asserted
> the
> feature may be.
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> ______________________________________________________________
> David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Corel Linux is Debian with qmail preinstalled
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Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Administrator
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http://www.localconnect.net/
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