Re: [cobalt-users] Backup Mail Server Setup

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 100, Daniel Ouellet wrote:

> Original-From: Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>
> Original-Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Original-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:08:03 +0100 (CET)
> 
> Actually, that's all that's needed...
> 
> A secondary sendmail server just requeues the email until your primary
> server comes on-line again.
> 
> <<Snip>>
> 
> Well, I desagree with this. Yes if you just have some minor problem, but I am looking to see where and how to program the backup server to example try to send the mail back to the mail server every 3 hours for example and do this for 5 days and if after 5 days it is not getting there it can assume that the mail would not be deliverable. That kind of things.
> 
> It is true that you just need an MX record to create any amount of backup servers, but where do we configure the rest of it.
> 

Well, that's in the sendmail.cf file...

Defaut is 4 or 5 days retrial every 4th hour and then sending the mail
back to the original sender. This is for the Queue which means, no special
treatment for secondary MX-servers.

Best regards,

Rickard Osser
Manager
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