Re: [ILUG] Configuring Postfix as backup MX host

From: Nick (nickm at domain go2.ie)
Date: Mon 20 Aug 2001 - 18:14:21 IST


From: "Niall O Broin" <niall at domain linux.ie>
> but there has to be a mit more to it than that, surely. What will postfix
do
> with incoming mail for the.backed-up.domain.name ? What will happen if you
> have joe at domain your.domain.name and joe at domain the.backed-up.domain.name and you
haven't
> got it taken care of in virtual (which I don't want to do) ?

The mail never gets as far as the local delivery agent which has to worry
about
which mail goes into which mailbox. The mails get queued and every now
and again postfix will try to deliver the mail to it's final destination.



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