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From: Ryan Taylor <rjtaylor@ncia.net>
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Cc: Paul Khavkine <paul@colba.net>
Subject: Re: Backup MX with Sendmail
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Paul Khavkine wrote:

>
> Hi folks, it's been a while since i done that so memory is a bit shady.
>
> I have a custommer with domain.com that has his own mail server.
> Now if i want to back him up with a higher pref MX, it soesn't seem to
> work.
>
> When i dont have domain.com in sendmail.cw, i get relaying denied
> (obviously)
>
> When i add domain.com to sendmail.cw and when mail for domain.com gets
> to my mail server (when custommer's one is down) it tries to deliver it
> localy
> insted of queuing it.
>
> So i get user unknows since the username does not exist on my mail
> server.
> What am missing ?
>
> Thanx
> Paul
>
> --
> *************************************************
> Paul Khavkine
> Network Administrator
> Distributel Communications
> 740 Notre Dame West, Suite 1135
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3X6
> 1-514-877-0064
>

Hi Paul,

Add a line like:
domain.com	RELAY
to your /etc/mail/access.  Then run "make" from /etc/mail/.  The
sendmail.cw or "local-host-names", as it's called nowadays, is for domains
you'd like to have delivered locally.  So you actually _do not_ want to
list domain.com in that file.


RJ

---------------------
Ryan J. Taylor
Systems/Network Administrator
NCIA
rj@ncia.net


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