[NTLUG:Discuss] Secondary Mail Server

[Rev. wRy]

thomas.cameron at camerontech.com wrote:
> I am assuming sendmail here.

Yes, sorry.

> What you do on the secondary is tell it it is allowed to relay for the
> domain via /etc/access:
> 
> acmewidgetcorporation.com    RELAY
> 
> Do *not* add the domain name (acmewidgetcorporation.com in my example) to
> local-host-names on the secondary MX server.

Had that mistake too.

> What this does is tells the secondary to realy to the primary.  It will
> keep trying for 5 days, so you have 5 days to get the primary back up. 
> You should *not* have user accounts on the relay server - they are not
> needed.  You need not configure anything nearly as complicated as
> virtusertable.

I was working from the sendmail page on virtual hosting - I agree it 
seemed overly complicated which is why I asked here instead. :)

> That's it - you have a relay server.

that's what I worked out with jack s. offlist.  Also helpful was to make 
sure the line:

FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl

was in the .mc file (wasn't originally)

All is working now.  Thanks for your responses.

> Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT

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