On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 03:22:57PM -0500, Peter Green wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:59:10PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> > Peter Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I've search LWQ, the qmail home page, and my for: 'multiple', 'instance',
> > >and 'queue'. Yet, I can't find the links (that I know I've seen!) to
> > >step-by-step instructions for setting up multiple, concurrent qmail
> > >queues/installations. Does anyone have any pointers?
> >
> > Just build and install more qmails with different conf-qmail's
> > pointing to their homes, e.g., /var/qmail1, /var/qmail2, ...,
> > /var/qmail/N. To inject a mesage into "qmail1", use
> > /var/qmail1/bin/qmail-inject.
> >
> > You'll have to pick one to listen to port 25, or come up with some
> > mechanism for round-robin'ing it.
>
> Just to clarify, I want the queues to be 'cascading'. The first queue has
> extremely short timeouts and retries set to 0. Upon failure to deliver from
> the first queue, the message is then forwarded to the second queue, where
> timeouts and retries are more sane.
>
> I guess the part I can't figure out is how to make qmail do precisely this,
> especially in the forwarding from one queue to the other.
I have yet to find out how, I also can't seem to find how to make it deliver
to a smart host after first failure, something very welcome on dialups. This
is just about the only thing I miss in qmail that sendmail does have :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
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