Re: [cobalt-users] Backup MX Server and Forwarding

["Al-Juhani" <aljuhani@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the article is about RaQ4 but I do not see why the file is not there
but anyway you can try the GUI:

Control Panel -> Email Server
the add the domain to "Relay for the following Hosts/Domains".

Regards,

aljuhani@xxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 23:13
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Backup MX Server and Forwarding


> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the link Al-Juhani,
>
> > Follow the instructions here:
> > http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-November/059347.html
>
> I read through it and it seems quite logical, so I have done the
following. As this server
> was the original server that was accepting emails for the domain in
question, I created
> all of the A Records and MX records for the new mail server and set its
priority to the
> highest, then set the original MX records to the lowest priority.
>
> I then went into the RaQ3's GUI and changed the Accept Email to unchecked.
>
> The only bit within the article that you linked for me that I could not
find was the
> following bit:
>
> SNIP
> Your fallback mailserver must *not* receive mail (ie: deliver locally) for
> domain.com. Your mail would get stuck at this mailserver. It must only
> allow relaying for this domain, which in sendmail is done by adding
> "domain.com" (and again any hosts in that domain that have an MX record)
to
> "/etc/mail/relay-domains". This is class r.
> SNIP
>
> I have tried a locate for the file relay-domains, but could not find one,
so either it is
> named differently in my raq3, or one does not exist for this purpose at
present.
>
> Any ideas on this one please. Also, will my current set up of not having
the Accept Email
> for the domain checked do the trick with this.
>
> Thanks as always.
>
> Mac