From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 9 13:11:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA26070 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from colonel.42inc.com (colonel.42inc.com [205.217.47.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA26060 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jal@42is.com) Received: from [205.217.47.88] (vegas.42inc.com [205.217.47.88]) by colonel.42inc.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA26141; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:09:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: jal@205.217.47.82 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:11:20 -0800 To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Re: Mail Spooling Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ah - Now I see your question. You need to setup sendmail relaying. Have a look at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html. -j At 3:49 PM +0000 on 10/9/97, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > Yes, however if I do that, then the server expects mail delivery > information/mailboxes to be located on the secondary as well, and they're > not going to be nfs mounted or anything. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated > Systems Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 > jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 > http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > > :At 3:37 PM +0000 on 10/9/97, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > : > : > :> I've got two machines, one has the mail folders and stuff on it, the other > :> is just another server. I want the other server to be able to hold mail > :> if the primary goes down, then feed it to the primary when it comes back > :> up - smtp spooling. > : > :Ah. You want to specify weights in the MX records. For example, here's > :how it looks for one of our clients: > : > :elf: {202} nslookup > : > :[...] > : > :> set type=mx > :> kamersinger.com > :Server: amp.emf.net > :Address: 205.149.0.10 > : > :kamersinger.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail2.emf.net > :kamersinger.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.kamersinger.com > :kamersinger.com nameserver = ns1.emf.net > :kamersinger.com nameserver = ns2.emf.net > :mail2.emf.net internet address = 205.149.0.22 > :mail.kamersinger.com internet address = 205.217.46.162 > :ns1.emf.net internet address = 205.149.0.10 > :ns2.emf.net internet address = 205.149.0.20 > : > : > :The preference lines are what's important - hosts sending mail will prefer > :mail.kamersinger.com, but fall back to mail2.emf.net. > : > :In your DNS database, you want to do something like > : > :*.netrail.net IN MX 10 mail.netrail.net. > :*.netrail.net IN MX 20 othermail.netrail.net > : > :-j > : > : -- "Look out honey, I'm usin' technology." -Iggy Pop __________________________________________________________________ jamie@42is.com Agent