Re: [cobalt-users] MX quick question!

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GW> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:54:03 -0500 (EST)
GW> From: Gerald Waugh


GW> Make your RaQ a secondary email server, have 'MX' record with low priority
GW> on the nameserver.
GW>
GW> The nameserver will have both MX records and will send to the high
GW> priority server if it is up, else it will send to your mailserver.

Close... some programs will try a "lower priority" (numerically
higher in DNS) MX if the primary rejects mail.


GW> Your mailserver can queue the mail for users it doesn't know about, or
GW> deliver to users it does know about.
GW> You must have it 'relay' for all domains though.

Not quite sure what you mean here... I hope you don't mean relay
for absolutely all domains. :-)  Only enable relaying for the
domains in question.


Eddy
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