Re: how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?

1998-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Well, you'll need to modify your MX dns record to point to the new destination - you'll then need to tell the gateway machine that's holding the mail explicitly how to route it, or else the machine holding the mail will try to send it to itself, and mail will get

Re: how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?

1998-06-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Joey Hess wrote: has been undeliverable for 3 days; we'll keep trying for another 9 days), and all the mail will get through if your main server is down for less than twelve. Unfortunatly, there are exceptions to this. For example, if you are subscribed to

how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?

1998-06-18 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail to the server. How can this be done? The temporary holder can be our gateway/dns, for

Re: how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?

1998-06-18 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail to the server. How can this be done? The

Re: how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?

1998-06-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: [ snip ] : something to hold the mail - if the sites sending the mail can't get : through to your mail server, they'll just hold it until they can get : through. Typically, what will happen is that people trying to send : mail to your site will