Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:10:34 +1100 From: Corey Ralph <corey.ralph@datafast.net.au> To: Michael Vince <michael@roq.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secondary Mail server Message-ID: <20020202041034.GA27049@corey.datafast.net.au> In-Reply-To: <003901c1ab84$16053f80$2e01a8c0@MICHAEL2> References: <003901c1ab84$16053f80$2e01a8c0@MICHAEL2>
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Hi Michael, You need to set up a second MX record with a higher preference number, and you do need to set up the secondary server slightly differently. If you want to use qmail for this secondary server, put the list of domains in rcpthosts, and NOT in virtualdomains or locals. This way it will accept mail for those domains and pass it to the primary MX when it is available. Cheers Corey On 02/02/02 11:53 +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > Hi all. > I need some help setting up a secondary mail server. > Last night my primary one (and only mail server ) stopped running after I > cvsup it to 4.5 release. > It was that Amavis Antivirus perl needs /usr/bin/perlsuid to have the > special permissions > -rwsr-xr-x 3 root wheel /usr/bin/suidperl > when its normally > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel /usr/bin/suidperl > It was the make installworld that caused it. Because it reset the > permissions of the file. > I am running Qmail / Amavis antivirus. / VMailMgr http://www.vmailmgr.org/ / > Omail http://omail.omnis.ch/ > > I was running on sendmail for the last year but thought I would try a change > because I needed an web based user friendly system to have mail > administration for other people (Achieved with Omail). > > I would like some documentation / suggestions on the best secondary mail > solution, I have the O'rielly sendmail book but just browsing through it I > cant see any section on setting up a secondary mail server. Is it that that > you just configure the mail server like you would a primary but have a > higher MX preference value and it automagically detects this and sends it to > the primary mail server when its backup? I just cant find any infomation > about this. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Corey Ralph corey.ralph@datafast.net.au System Administrator +61 3 5278 3955 Datafast Telecommunications ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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