From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 23:23: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E89137B401; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id usqsaaaa for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:31:07 +1100 Message-ID: <3A5EB0E0.F9174C5B@quake.com.au> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:23:12 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Masse Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail queue References: <009401c07c43$fe735c00$0400a8c0@Home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Masse wrote: > > Could anyone provide some info with regards to setting up a secondary mail > server? having the mail get queued in the secondary mail server when the PMS > is down then send all the mail back to the PMS when back up? That is done with the MX record in the DNS zone file... say you have server.domain.com zone with two mail servers, one local and one remote backup you would have this in the zone: server A x.x.x.x server MX 50 server.domain.com. server MX 60 backup.otherhost.com. You can have as many as you want... Mail will go to the lowest number MX first then the next and so on until its received by something... Setting up your smpt server is another matter and will depend on what you are using... Good Luck! Kal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message