RE: [cobalt-users] Question RE: Mail Spooling "store-and-forward"

[john_galt@xxxxxxx]

> Message: 13
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Question RE: Mail Spooling "store-and-forward"
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:43:05 -0600
> From: "Chris Burchell" <cburchell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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> I'm not sure if the above discussion is related to my query, so I will
> ask anyway...
> 
> I would like to use my RAQ4 to be able to provide backup MX
> Preference=20 type service for another domain that I am not hosting, as
> a backup for their primary MX=10 if/when it is down to temporarily hold
> incoming email and relay it when available.
> 
> Do I need to be hosting the domain for which I want to provide
> forwarding / relaying? Or will the RAQ simply keep trying to forward to
> the MX=10 server as configured in sendmail as long as it's set up in the
> "relay for the following hosts/domains" box?
> 
Yes, it should do that whether you are hosting the domain or not. I'm
not sure 
exactly what the GUI does to the sendmail configuration files, but those
are the 
only files that need to be updated on your RaQ.

> Do I simply have to enter the domain name (for the domain to which I
> want to provide mx=20 backup service) in: control panel -> Mail server
> prefs -> "Relay for the following Hosts/Domains" to allow this or is it
> more involved?

There's also the DNS MX records that need to be updated? Are you doing
DNS for this 
domain? Or is that someone else's responsibility? If you are responsible
for DNS in 
that zone, you will need to add the second MX record pointing to your
server. 

BTW, I'm pretty new at this RaQ stuff, so my answers might be a little
off. 
However, I do have some experience with sendmail on other platforms, and
I have 
been experimenting with the settings in the mail section.