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[Brad Knowles]

At 11:01 AM +0100 2003/10/10, Kumar Prashant (Zero Touch) (UK) wrote:

>  I want mail-2 to be a backup server for my mail-1. So I added priority
>  MX records. The sendmail FAQ says that's all you have to do ( and of
>  course allow relay). mail-2 should queue up all the messages when mail-1
>  is down. It does NOT work and I get the infamous "mail loops back to me".
>
>  Now I add mailertable entry and everything starts working i.e mail-2
>  queues for mail-1 when mail-1 is down. The thing is this mailertable
>  makes my design pretty complicated and I don't want to use this feature.
>  How can I get sendmail to queue without it?

	This is a sendmail question, not a mailman question.

	Please see <http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.5>.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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