On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 04:54:15PM -0000, Petr Novotny wrote:
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> On 19 Jan 00, at 9:37, Jennifer Tippens wrote:
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> Don't deliver the mail at the firewall host - route it to the internal 
> host by the means of smtproutes. Don't worry about outages of 
> internal servers unless they are longer than a week. qmail will 
> accept the mail for the domain, keep it in queue, and forward to the 
> internal server when it's online.

Elaborated:
- put your domainname in control/rcpthosts on the firewalling MX
- set your primary MX to be the firewalling box
- put domainname:internalhost in control/smtproutes
- make sure your domainname isn't in control/locals or control/virtualdomains on the
  firewalling host.

Greetz, Peter.
-- 
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder 
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