backup mx tries to send to itself

2011-10-31 Thread Janantha Marasinghe
Hi All, I have just setup a backup MX My DNS entries are 10 mail.domain.com 20 mail2.domain.com My main.cf on the mail2 is as follows relay_domains = domain.com, $mydestination relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients I'm now testing out the testing out taking down

Re: backup mx tries to send to itself

2011-10-31 Thread /dev/rob0
On Monday 31 October 2011 07:48:08 Janantha Marasinghe wrote: I have just setup a backup MX Why? In most cases they are more trouble than they are worth. Spam magnets which do nothing to help you, unless your primary MX is down for 3 or more days. (In the latter case, address that problem

Re: backup mx tries to send to itself

2011-10-31 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:18:08 +0530, Janantha Marasinghe wrote: relay_domains = domain.com, $mydestination mydestinatin must not be listed there, why ? relay_demoins is not local, and mydestination is local