Re: Opensmtpd failover

2018-11-23 Thread Peter J. Philipp
If I only knew what others use when they do this successfully then all my problems would be solved.   Just kidding. However here is a try.  In 1998 I was a sysadmin and our setup was with sendmail and postfix not smtpd.  We had 3 Sun Ultra Sparc computers connected with a small switch to a

Re: Opensmtpd failover

2018-11-23 Thread Thomas Bohl
Hello, Now smtp2 writes the message on the disk in order to store it. What do you people do in order to have a common storage for both smtp which can be correct regardless whether a smtp goes up or down. I'm afraid my answer has little to do with OpenSMTPD. The common storage for my emails

Opensmtpd failover

2018-11-23 Thread Mik J
Hello, I'm wondering how to do a proper mail server failover. Let's say smtp1 is down, the internet client resolves the other mx with a lower priority and the mail goes to smtp2. Now smtp2 writes the message on the disk in order to store it. What do you people do in order to have a common