Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-08-12 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/9/2011 9:28 PM, Ben Kennedy wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote at 9:47 AM (-0400) on 6/10/11: My solution to this problem is to take the secondary server offline. If the primary server goes down, the sending servers will queue the mail for you for a reasonable amount of time (generally at least

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-08-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ben Kennedy writes: u...@example.com: u...@mailhost.example.com That's an interesting and clever approach. Would this properly pass through ad hoc local-part extensions, e.g. for mail addressed to user- someth...@example.com - user-someth...@mailhost.example.com? No, it wouldn't.

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-08-10 Thread Ben Kennedy
Sam Varshavchik wrote at 7:07 AM (-0400) on 8/10/11: That's an interesting and clever approach. Would this properly pass through ad hoc local-part extensions, e.g. for mail addressed to user- someth...@example.com - user-someth...@mailhost.example.com? No, it wouldn't. Well, that rules

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-08-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ben Kennedy writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote at 7:07 AM (-0400) on 8/10/11: That's an interesting and clever approach. Would this properly pass through ad hoc local-part extensions, e.g. for mail addressed to user- someth...@example.com - user-someth...@mailhost.example.com? No, it wouldn't.

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-08-09 Thread Ben Kennedy
Hey all, I'm folloiwng up on this thread I started about two months ago. I haven't had time to revisit it or implement any of your suggestions until now. So this is a delayed response, but thank you for the ideas, Bowe and Sam! Sam Varshavchik wrote at 10:05 PM (-0400) on 6/9/11: One thing

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-06-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Sam, your suggestion is genearaly working but if you have two mails like linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net linux4miche...@tdexample.net then you run into problems wbch can be solved IF the whole lenght of the LOCALPART@DOMAIN does not exceed 32 characters. :-D If you have already an

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-06-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/9/2011 8:45 PM, Ben Kennedy wrote: Hey folks, Some of you may recall this discussion from last fall. I've got a problem, one that I guess my servers have exhibited for years, and I want to fix it. I have two machines, which I'll call primary and secondary. They are both MX for a

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-06-09 Thread Ben Kennedy
Hey folks, Some of you may recall this discussion from last fall. I've got a problem, one that I guess my servers have exhibited for years, and I want to fix it. I have two machines, which I'll call primary and secondary. They are both MX for a number of domains; primary has a lower priority

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2011-06-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ben Kennedy writes: Hey folks, Some of you may recall this discussion from last fall. I've got a problem, one that I guess my servers have exhibited for years, and I want to fix it. I have two machines, which I'll call primary and secondary. They are both MX for a number of domains; primary

[courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2010-09-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 23/Sep/10 01:00, Malcolm Weir wrote: From: Ben Kennedy [mailto:b...@zygoat.ca] With respect, I still find this argument somewhat specious. Virtually every enterprise of any size on the internet still runs multiple MX servers. While I appreciate that having a single point of reception means a

Re: [courier-users] Backup MX, was Courier::Filter rejecting over-zealously

2010-09-24 Thread Malcolm Weir
-Original Message- From: Alessandro Vesely [mailto:ves...@tana.it] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:40 AM In my experience, enterprises of size actually operate dedicated boundary servers as their MX platforms, and final delivery is handled by an entirely different set of servers