Re: [ILUG] Quick mail question

From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Wed 29 Sep 1999 - 14:06:48 IST


It requires little setup, make sure that the domain you are queueing mail
for is allowed relay through your backup machine, throw in an MX record
for the backup server at a higher priority and it should queue
automatically ..

Dave.

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Philip Trickett wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How difficult (and roughly what would it entail) is it to set up a
> storage system for mail, just in case our main mail server goes down. I
> presume sendmail has the option to store mail if the main MX record for
> the domain in not reachable.
> Is there a HOWTO anywhere for this sort of thing?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil Trickett
>
>
>

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