Hello Tim,
Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 12:16:31 AM, you wrote:
TL> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:33:45AM -0600, Kashan Sadiq wrote:
>> If there are two servers running qmail on both of them. One is
>> primary and the second is backup mail server which is for use of Queueing
>> only. Now how would the mails on secondary mail server transfer to primary
>> mail server and then stores in user accounts automatically.
TL> 1. Make sure you have MX records in DNS for both servers.
TL> 2. On the backup mail server, put the domain names you will accept
TL> mail for in the .../qmail/control/rcpthosts file.
TL> 3. Make sure those domain names are /not/ in .../qmail/control/locals or
TL> .../qmail/control/virtualdomains.
TL> That's it. The secondary will accept mail, queue it, and send it to the
TL> primary automatically. It's up to the primary to deliver the mail.
TL> Tim
The topic "backup mailserver" is very interesting. The external SMTP
Server delivers automatically to ALL MX Servers of a domain? It would
be interesting to know.
--
Boris
