On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:22:05AM -0800, michael M. Honse wrote:
> I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well..
> BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail
> server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC......
> Anyone have a how-to for that ?..
set up the second machine and insert the appropriate host names it
shall be a backup mail server for into /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts.
Do not insert them into control/locals.
Test this from an outside machine which is not a relayclient.
Test it again.
Tell whoever manages the MX records for all those domains to set up a
low priority MX record for all host names configured above, pointing
to your second machine.
Et voila.
See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike
backup mail servers.
Regards, Uwe
