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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:37:26 +0800 (WST)
From:      Ian Clarke <i.clarke@student.murdoch.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   redundant mail services?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000425181842.18899A-100000@student.murdoch.edu.au>

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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



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