Kari Suomela writes:
>
> Friday March 09 2001 00:31, Sam Varshavchik wrote to All:
>
>
> SV> Installing qmail, and configuring it to smarthost mail through
> SV> your
> SV> primary mail relay, is going to accomplish exactly the same thing
> SV> as
> SV> adding ESMTP client code, except that the whole thing will
> SV> continue to
> SV> work when the primary mail relay goes down for maintenance.
>
> SV> Otherwise, when your mail relay goes down, people will start
> SV> screaming
> SV> at you because they can't send any mail. Is _that_ a good idea?
>
> The idea is to spread the services to multiple machines, which will
> back each other up.
Correct, so when your primary mail server goes down, the nullclient qmail on
the local machine will keep everything running, until the primary mail relay
is back in service.
--
Sam
