From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 3:37:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from student.murdoch.edu.au (student.murdoch.edu.au [134.115.4.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A7937B823 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:37:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from i.clarke@student.murdoch.edu.au) Received: from localhost (i.clarke@localhost) by student.murdoch.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA19449 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:37:26 +0800 (WST) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:37:26 +0800 (WST) From: Ian Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: redundant mail services? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I want to get an idea of how people set up a redundant email service. I've been doing a bit of experimenting with email services on a couple of servers I have here. The first server is running Redhat Linux 5.2 with Qmail and the second is running FreeBSD 3.2 with sendmail (I plan to make the Linux box into a FreeBSD box when I work up the willpower to do it :) ). Now, I set the mail exchange records in the DNS server (separate machine) so that by default, email is routed to the Linux machine. When I take the machine offline, it routes the email to the FreeBSD machine, as it should. However, how do I make the FreeBSD box then send the mail that it received, onto the the corresponding accounts on the Linux box, if it can be done? And seeing though it's already happened, as in there is accrued email on the FreeBSD box, is there some sendmail utility to then forward the incoming mail queues as a whole to the Linux box? Also, if anyone has any suggestions as to how to set up an ideal redundant email service using FreeBSD, I'd like to hear about it (in terms of software, not hardware tho - I've got precious little as it is :) ). Cheers and TIA Ian Clarke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message