Re: [cobalt-users] 2ndary mail server?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:

> I have a client whose mailserver is provided by another company - we host their site on a dedicated RAQ, while another company handles their mail.
> This other company says that the SoBig virus is coming in at such a rate, that their mailserver can't cope.
> Their dedicated server has mailscanner, but none of the user accounts setup...
> how can we change it so that their mail first hits their dedicated server, we mailscanner it - remove the viruses etc, and pass it through to their 2ndary mailserver?  Any ideas welcomed - they are getting a little upset about their mail situation - which I completely understand!
> I was thinking that we need to simply setup a catchall on the machine this end, then create an MX record for this server, w
> ith a HIGHER priority mailserver setting.
> Wouldn't that cause mail to be collected here, scanned, then passed for
final collection to the existing mailserver?
>

Make sure your RaQ does not have an email-server-alias for the domains
(obviously it doesn't)

Setup your access file to relay for the domains.
Setup the MX records such that your server is the high priority server.
And there server is the low priority server.

The email should then go through your server and since your server does
not accept email for the domain it will relay it to the next priority server.

Gerald
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