Re: [qmailtoaster] Need help for backup mail server

[Jake Vickers]

Carlo Paraboni wrote:

Hi all.
I need help for the configuration of a backup mail server.

with the following sintax

mydomail.it:[xxx.yyy.zz.kk]



I had not defined user on the secondary server and now the problem:


553 sorry no mailbox here for ...

What's wrong in the configuration?

I had a primary QMT server working in a breeze from more the one year. Now I need to install a backup server for this: my goal is that this secondary server hold the mail that the primary cannot receive, and then when the primary comes up, the secondary route all the he received to the primary. So i make a new installation of QMT on a new server, than I setup a SMTPROUTES file /var/qmail/control where xxx.yyy.zz.kk is the IP of the primary mail server and mydomain.it is the domain maintaned from the primary server When the secondary server receive mail for the mydomain.it it answer with a

Do not put anything in smtproutes.

For a caching backup server the ONLY configuration file you need to edit is rcpthosts. Put the domain you want to accept mail for (and cache) in this file and it will start accepting mail for it, and sending it to the primary MX once it's able to receive it.

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