TAG writes:
> I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My
> question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event
> that it goes down or looses connectivity??
>
> I have added entries into DNS so as the two severs are secondary MX's
> for each other.. BUT what needs to be done on the qmail side so that it
> will accept these messages and queue them until they can be dilivered??
This is a bad idea. Why? Because you're setting yourself up for the
situation a friend was just in. His main server went down, and the
secondary kicked in. Unfortunately, the secondary server had become
misconfigured (or was never configured correctly in the first place)
and his email started bouncing.
Overall, he would have been better off without a secondary MX server.
His mail still wouldn't have been delivered (a secondary doesn't
deliver the mail, it just re-queues it), but neither would it have
bounced either.
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