Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:14:50 -0500 From: "A. David Perez Marfil" <dperez@unimayab.edu.mx> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Backup MX with Sendmail Message-ID: <81C8CA3C286FD511A959000102C9B2CE2B21@EXCHANGE>
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hi i just be a customer of some ISP, the ISP was our Mail Exchanger backup=20 with the same configuration,=20 but they give us a way to retrieve the email wend the main mail server back to up state with the follow=20 command finger ispserver@customerdomain how this is done? Regards David P=E9rez -----Mensaje original----- De: Ryan Taylor [mailto:rjtaylor@ncia.net] Enviado el: Mi=E9rcoles, 25 de Julio de 2001 11:55 a.m. Para: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG CC: Paul Khavkine Asunto: Re: Backup MX with Sendmail On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Paul Khavkine wrote: > > Hi folks, it's been a while since i done that so memory is a bit = shady. > > I have a custommer with domain.com that has his own mail server. > Now if i want to back him up with a higher pref MX, it soesn't seem = to > work. > > When i dont have domain.com in sendmail.cw, i get relaying denied > (obviously) > > When i add domain.com to sendmail.cw and when mail for domain.com = gets > to my mail server (when custommer's one is down) it tries to deliver = it > localy > insted of queuing it. > > So i get user unknows since the username does not exist on my mail > server. > What am missing ? > > Thanx > Paul > > -- > ************************************************* > Paul Khavkine > Network Administrator > Distributel Communications > 740 Notre Dame West, Suite 1135 > Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3X6 > 1-514-877-0064 > Hi Paul, Add a line like: domain.com RELAY to your /etc/mail/access. Then run "make" from /etc/mail/. The sendmail.cw or "local-host-names", as it's called nowadays, is for = domains you'd like to have delivered locally. So you actually _do not_ want to list domain.com in that file. RJ --------------------- Ryan J. Taylor Systems/Network Administrator NCIA rj@ncia.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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