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Title: Backup Mail Host
Post by: Gary Parker on May 30, 2002, 05:42:45 PM

Is it possible for e-smith boxes to act as backup mail servers for each other?

There are 3 of us in our office, all with some form of broadband at home plugged into our respective e-smith servers and using dyndns.org hostnames. What we want is for our servers to queue each others' mail in the event of our servers being offline for whatever reason...

Dyndns.org provides the ability to specify a backup MX record which I can simply enter as mymate.ath.cx and check the Backup MX box. Now what do I need to do on the e-smith side of things to accept this guys mail and try to forward it later?

Gary

Title: Re: Backup Mail Host
Post by: guestHH on May 31, 2002, 12:26:19 PM

Hi,

Take a look here, maybe it gets you started.

http://www.star-support.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/Linux-HA/SME%20High%20Availability%20How-To.html

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: Backup Mail Host
Post by: Gary Parker on May 31, 2002, 07:01:44 PM

We figured it out in the end....was quite easy, actually....

Once you've added the correct info to the DynDNS account you simply have to add the following line to /var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules and it's respective template (not too hot on templates yet).

allow:ALL:ALL:*. *@
Everything should work a treat after that....

G.