From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 8 19:07:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA00546 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 19:07:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from lightning.tbe.net (qmailr@lightning.tbe.net [208.208.122.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00540 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 19:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@lightning.tbe.net) Received: (qmail 847 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Oct 1997 01:58:05 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 21:58:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Dan Busarow cc: alex huppenthal , FreeBSD ISP List Subject: Re: MX and Aliases In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How does this work with the /var/spool directories? It looks like outbound > > email > > would work fine. What happens when flash.tbe.net takes over incoming email? > > Doesn't flash need to know where to spool incoming email? > > > > I see this as a solution to outbound email congestion. What the solution for > > incoming email? > > Make sure that Cw on flash.tpb.net does *not* contain tbe.net. > (run sendmail -d0.49 and check the a.k.a.'s) > > As long as tbe.net is not in flash.tbe.net's Cw it will automatically spool > it for the higher preference electric.tbe.net. > > Dan Oops...sorry about not specifying, but we run Q-mail rather than sendmail. I will change its files as necessary though. Hopefully having the dedicated mail server will relieve any congestion. We went a bit overkill for a mail server anyway, a Cyrix 200+ with 32MB RAM, 2 Gig /var partition, for a server that pushes 3000 messages on its best day. The other option for queuing is to have machines on other domains do it for us. We have a few domains we can use instead of using tbe machines, as those machines would definately queue rather than try to deliver the mail. Thanks for all the help! ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 256-4605 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net