----- Original Message -----
From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 August 2000 at
13:30:37 -0400
> > What is the correct way to configure a secondary MX machine (qmail
using
> > qmqp) so that the messages are sent with the standard exponential
backoff
> > until '24 hours', and then every day for two weeks?
> >
> One way is to configure that domain as virtual on the secondary, and
> direct it all into a maildir. Then run maildirsmtp (or maildirqmtp)
> on the maildir under cron or other control to make attempts at
> delivery to the primary on whatever schedule you want.
>
> Remember that a small amount of mail will end up at the secondary even
> when the primary is actually up, due to connectivity and DNS
> flakiness; so you need a system that delivers that mail fairly
> promptly. You can't, for example (as I wanted to before I realized
> this problem), hold the mail and require a manual trigger to deliver
> it.
Right ... because of ignorance of preference levels and/or the primary
simply rejecting a connection because of tcpserver hitting its max.
That said, there's no way to do this more ... integrated-ly with QMQP
without having the exponential failure rate increase and bounces?
