From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 25 10:14:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from exchange.unimayab.edu.mx (unknown [148.230.75.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18F637B407 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dperez@unimayab.edu.mx) Received: by EXCHANGE with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:14:50 -0500 Message-ID: <81C8CA3C286FD511A959000102C9B2CE2B21@EXCHANGE> From: "A. David Perez Marfil" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Backup MX with Sendmail Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:14:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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