RE: [cobalt-users] How do you setup cobalts to act as secondary mailservers?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Erica Douglass
>Lead Web Developer
>Simpli, Inc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh
>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:51 PM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How do you setup cobalts to act as secondary
>mailservers?
>
>On Thursday 15 May 2003 15:55, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
>> -snip-
>> But can I setup additional RAQ servers to accept mail and relay to the
>> primary, so that OUR network accepts the mail for the client and
>continues
>> to try and deliver it?
>
>I have a Qube2 in a different data center that assumes the task as my
>secondary mail server.
>Set the lowest numerically nameserver as the primary mail server (where
>you
>actually want the mail delivered. (highest priority)
>Set a higher numerically secondary mail server that will catch and
>forward
>email that the primary could not handle. (lowest priority)
>On the secondary mail server, set it up to accept email for the domains
>it is
>to handle.
>That's it!
>
>Gerald
>
>------
>
>Hi Gerald,
>
>I'm actually curious about this as well. What you're explaining is how a
>RaQ can be set up to handle secondary email for the domain -- but what
>happens when the first server comes back up? Does the secondary RaQ know
>how to transfer the email that it gathered back to the first RaQ? Is
>this an automatic process, or does someone have to log in and manually
>transfer email back to the first server when it comes back up?
>
>I have a feeling I just don't understand this completely, so if you
>could go a bit more in-depth on how this works, I would appreciate it.


Does this mean that you don't need users or aliases for the email addresses setup, as the server works out that there is another higher up server to send the mail to when it can??

I'm really sceptical about that being al that's required.... honestly?!?

I'd  guess that being sendmail, it's simply a hang over from when programmers used to KNOW how to program, they didn't have to release a version, write a fix, release a fix, write a fix, write another fix, write another fix, release a version, and so on... damn, I *used* to know how to program, but have become ultra lazy in the last few years!

;{)

regards

Greg

>
>Thanks,
>Erica Douglass
>Lead Web Developer
>Simpli, Inc.
>
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