Re: [vchkpw] Fallback MTA and vpopmail
Hi Jasper, On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Jasper Metselaar wrote: IN MX 10 mail.domain-owner.com. IN MX 100 mail.mymailserver.com. How should I setup the domain so that my server becomes a fallback and that it delivers the e-mail to the primary mailserver when it is available again (in case the primary mailserver is off-line)? Thanks for any suggestions! - Remove the domain from 'virtualdomains' for it only being in 'rcpthosts'. - HUP qmail-send. - DONE, if your server (mail.mymailserver.com) is able to figure out the MX record for 'domain-owner.com' as 'mail.domain-owner.com'. If not: echo 'domain-owner.com:mail.domain-owner.com' \ /var/qmail/control/smtproutes P.S.: For future mails to this list you really should disable Reply-To. 1.) It's superfluous. It contains the same address as From and therefore is absolutely useless. 2.) It makes it impossible to easily reply to the list for those MUAs capable of List-Reply by evaluating 'List-Post' header. 'Reply-To' takes, for obvious reasons, precedence over 'List-Post'. Thank you. -- Ciao, Pit
RE: [vchkpw] Fallback MTA and vpopmail
Another option, and although it may be a little over the top for this particular situation, is AutoTURN. It's part of the serialmail package put out by DJB to work with qmail. We use it here for mail caching and it works great. http://cr.yp.to/serialmail.html -Original Message- From: Jasper Metselaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Fallback MTA and vpopmail Hi, I used to have a domain running with vpopmail, qmailadmin and vqadmin. Now the owner of the domain asked to deliver his mail to another mailserver and to configure my server as a fallback MTA for that domain. E.g. IN MX 10 mail.domain-owner.com. IN MX 100 mail.mymailserver.com. How should I setup the domain so that my server becomes a fallback and that it delivers the e-mail to the primary mailserver when it is available again (in case the primary mailserver is off-line)? Thanks for any suggestions! - Jasper
Re: [vchkpw] Fallback MTA and vpopmail
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 03:29 AM, Jasper Metselaar wrote: How should I setup the domain so that my server becomes a fallback and that it delivers the e-mail to the primary mailserver when it is available again (in case the primary mailserver is off-line)? Thanks for any suggestions! vdeldomain domain-owner.com echo domain-owner.com /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts The first line removes the domain from your server. The second line says that you'll accept the mail. Since it's not in virtualdomains, qmail will relay it instead of keeping it. Make sure that's a double angle-bracket () in the last line so it appends the domain to rcpthosts and doesn't replace rcpthosts with that line. If DNS is set up correctly, your server will accept mail for domain-owner.com and try to send it on to the real server. As mentioned by others, if DNS is wrong you can add an entry to smtproutes to route the mail to the correct server. -- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
