Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Malcolm Weir wrote: [...] The second MX is _strictly_ a fallback system. It will store and forward messages for the primary, but it doesn't do the SMTP-level message rejection. So it will accept pretty much anything sent to it, and then shovel that on to my primary when the primary

[courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas van Gulick
Hello everyone! Probably easy question. Looked through the old mailinglist messages, but couldn't find an answer. Is is possible to make courier automatically try to use secondary (or even lower-priority mailservers) for sending an email if the primary one fails? Of course it's possible to

Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-19 Thread Ben Kennedy
Thomas van Gulick wrote at 5:49 pm (+0200) on 19 6 2005: Is is possible to make courier automatically try to use secondary (or even lower-priority mailservers) for sending an email if the primary one fails? Um. Isn't that exactly what additional MX's are for? Are you suggesting that courier

Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Thomas van Gulick writes: Hello everyone! Probably easy question. Looked through the old mailinglist messages, but couldn't find an answer. Is is possible to make courier automatically try to use secondary (or even lower-priority mailservers) for sending an email if the primary one fails?

Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Thomas van Gulick wrote: Is is possible to make courier automatically try to use secondary (or even lower-priority mailservers) for sending an email if the primary one fails? That should be the normal behavior. When are you seeing that not happen?

Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas van Gulick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Courier User courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 18:16 Subject: Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails Thomas van Gulick wrote: Is is possible to make courier automatically try to use secondary (or even lower

Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Thomas van Gulick wrote: It happens for _incoming_ mail! I can understand that default behaviour for incoming mail is to not accept it, if primary MX host doesn't resolve. I'll have a look at the manual if that can be circumvented somehow! Not without some pretty hard fiddling. I believe