From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 14 21:26:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from e450.mnsi.net (e450.mnsi.net [206.48.122.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1EC37B6A0 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from lan4 (dyn216-8-128-247.ADSL.mnsi.net [216.8.128.247]) by e450.mnsi.net (8.8.8/waffleiron) with SMTP id AAA09377; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:25:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <006501c07eb3$c20001c0$0400a8c0@Home> From: "Ryan Masse" To: "Dirk Meyer" Cc: "FreeBSD-ISP" References: <009401c07c43$fe735c00$0400a8c0@Home> Subject: Re: sendmail queue Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:26:35 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org just so we're on the same page: primary.do.main smpt:[hostname of primary mail-server] should be if the PMS was domain1.com and the SMS backup.domain1.com backup.domain1.com smtp:[domain1.com] yes? From: Dirk Meyer To: > Ryan Masse wrote: > > > Could anyone provide some info with regards to setting up a secondary mail > > server? having the mail get queued in the secondary mail server when the PMS > > is down then send all the mail back to the PMS when back up? > > 1) The easy way: > configure Sendmail to accept mail for this host/domain: > simply add in /etc/mail/mailertable: > > primary.do.main smpt:[hostname of primary mail-server] > > After rebuild of mailertable.db the server will accept mail > for this domain and deliver it towards the primary server. > Please keep the Hostname or IP in square brackets, > to avoid any DNS-lookup. > > > 2) For high loads or long downtime > You might configure a special Queue or requiets it with ETRN, > this could improve the performance, if you expect lots of mail. > This take a bit more work on the configuration. > > kind regards Dirk > > - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany > - Tel. +49-5606-6512 > > > 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