How feasible is it to have a primary and backup, configured as you describe
below, and be able to easily switch the backup to primary mode?
I suppose there's no point unless the IMAP/POP servers on each machine stay
in sync.
Ajit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Legant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
> 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.
>
> 1. Make sure you have MX records in DNS for both servers.
> 2. On the backup mail server, put the domain names you will accept
> mail for in the .../qmail/control/rcpthosts file.
> 3. Make sure those domain names are /not/ in .../qmail/control/locals or
> .../qmail/control/virtualdomains.
>
> That's it. The secondary will accept mail, queue it, and send it to the
> primary automatically. It's up to the primary to deliver the mail.
>
> Tim
>
>
