Re: [cobalt-users] Backup Mail Server Setup

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

Actually, that's all that's needed...

A secondary sendmail server just requeues the email until your primary
server comes on-line again.

Best regards,

Rickard Osser
Manager
Osser Brosoft AB		Distributor of Cobalt Networks servers
Maria Bangata 6			Computer Consultants
S-118 63 Stockholm, Sweden	Networking, DOS/Win/Mac/Linux/Unix
Tel: +46-8-798 29 27		E-mail: ricky@xxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Jim Euliano wrote:

> >Check out http://www.sendmail.org  and then go to the section call Virtual
> >Hosting.  Then the FAQ for how to do primary and secondary MXs
> 
> Gotta love it when someone says "RTFM" and they, themselves, can't even
> find where to look.
> 
> There is no FAQ on the sendmail page (that I can find... and I've looked
> for two years now) that describes how to configure a sendmail to act as a
> secondary host.
> 
> As I mentioned in my post, I already know to set up the DNS as a primary
> (10) and a secondary (20) ... which is all that sendmail's page describes.
> 
> So, if anyone else has any useful web sites with faq's or descriptions,
> that would be great... thanks!
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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