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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 May 2003 22:39, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
>
> 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!
>

All you need to do is create the two sets of MX records and
tell the secondary to relay for those domains/ip addresses.
I fth primary is down, the mail is sent to it and it will attempt to 'relay' 
the email to the primary mail server for 4 or 5 days.

Gerald
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