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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 1998 19:40:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Using alternate mail server for virtual hosts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.980123193315.469T-100000@gwis.com>

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Up until just last week we've had one machine handling all of our virtual
hosted web customers.. the machine handled all websites and email
accounts.  Now I've added a second machine which will serve a new set of
virtual host customers, but I want to keep the email boxes for their
domain on the old machine.

The problem I'm having is getting mail sent properly from the new vhost
machine to users within domains that are hosted there.  For example, let's
say we host www.domain.com on the new vhost machine.. if you try to send
email to anyone@domain.com from that server, it tries to deliver it
locally but fails because there are no mailboxes there.  Instead, it
should deliver the message to the mailbox on the other server. 

MX records are set up properly, and I am using sendmail on both machines.
What can I do to force delivery for these domains onto the original
server?

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Dan Roberts, http://gwis.com/~droberts        Gateway to Internet Services 
sysadmin/ircadmin, barovia.oh.us.dal.net    for Internet access in NE Ohio 
http://barovia.dal.net - Strahd on DALnet              http://www.gwis.com




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