Secondary MX - SendMail

"Wayne" <wayne@domain.com> writes:
> I've been googling for an answer but cant find anything thats straight
> forward for someone new to sendmail.
>
> I'm looking to setup a secondary mx for my domains which in the event of my
> primary mx going down stores
> the email until the primary comes back online and then pushes the mail back
> onto the primary.
>
> Can anyone advise as to a easy to follow howto for setting this up ?
>
> I'm running Fedora and Sendmail.

Can you make list of valid email addresses available at secondary?
[ as text file or via LDAP]

*Old* (pre "high spam" era) recipe for creating secondary was to put the
following entry in access file:

to:example.com RELAY

Fresher recipes describe also how to make secondary MX reject messages
*only* to valid email addresses.

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On 09/27/07 14:38, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> Fresher recipes describe also how to make secondary MX reject
> messages *only* to valid email addresses.

Pst, I think you mean "... ACCEPT messages *only to valid email
addresses.", not "... reject ...".



Grant. . . .

Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net> writes:

> On 09/27/07 14:38, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>> Fresher recipes describe also how to make secondary MX reject
>> messages *only* to valid email addresses.
>
> Pst, I think you mean "... ACCEPT messages *only to valid email
> addresses.", not "... reject ...".

You are right.
<joke> Are you surprised I do not read what I write? ;-) </joke>

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On 09/27/07 15:25, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> You are right.
> <joke> Are you surprised I do not read what I write? ;-) </joke>

Na. I make slip Froidian(s) all the time.



Grant. . . .