Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:04:44 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ian Clarke <i.clarke@student.murdoch.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: redundant mail services? Message-ID: <20000425070444.E14712@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000425181842.18899A-100000@student.murdoch.edu.au>; from i.clarke@student.murdoch.edu.au on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:37:26PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000425181842.18899A-100000@student.murdoch.edu.au>
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* Ian Clarke <i.clarke@student.murdoch.edu.au> [000425 04:07] wrote: > Hi > > I want to get an idea of how people set up a redundant email service. I've > been doing a bit of experimenting with email services on a couple of > servers I have here. The first server is running Redhat Linux 5.2 with > Qmail and the second is running FreeBSD 3.2 with sendmail (I plan to make > the Linux box into a FreeBSD box when I work up the willpower to do it :) > ). Now, I set the mail exchange records in the DNS server (separate > machine) so that by default, email is routed to the Linux machine. When I > take the machine offline, it routes the email to the FreeBSD machine, as > it should. However, how do I make the FreeBSD box then send the mail that > it received, onto the the corresponding accounts on the Linux box, if it > can be done? And seeing though it's already happened, as in there is > accrued email on the FreeBSD box, is there some sendmail utility to then > forward the incoming mail queues as a whole to the Linux box? > > Also, if anyone has any suggestions as to how to set up an ideal redundant > email service using FreeBSD, I'd like to hear about it (in terms of > software, not hardware tho - I've got precious little as it is :) ). I haven't seen a definative HOWTO on doing this, my setup looks like this: primary server has a sendmail.cw file for all the domains it handles. secondary server has a relay-domains file containing the same information as the primary's sendmail.cw, my sendmail.cf on the secondary has FR-o /etc/mail/relay-domains to point at the relay-domains file. I have all my MX set for 10 -> primary, 20 -> secondary. This seems to work pretty well for me. Best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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