OT? Fetchmail and backup MX

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
>Envoyé : 4 avril, 2004 12:37
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: OT? Fetchmail and backup MX
>
>
>Ugo,
>
>You should not have to do anything when your primary MX comes 
>back up.  If
>the primary is down, the mail should spool up on the backup MX 
>and wait for
>the primary to come back up.  I can't see why you'd have to 
>use fetchmail
>UNLESS your backup MX is set to deliver mail for your domain(s) locally
>instead of RELAY.  I use sendmail, so that's the only config 
>I'm familiar
>with.

Thanks Mike, but I don't have control on the backup MX.  As Stijn said, I will have to contact my hoster.  If not, I 
will keep on using fetchmail.  I'm testing now with spam checks enabled on 127.0.0.1.

>
>On backup MX:
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>/etc/mail/relay-domains:
>
>your_domain.com
>your_other_domain.com
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>/etc/mail/local-host-names:
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>localhost
>

Cool, I understand everything now :).

>Mike
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list
>> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
>> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 11:22 AM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: OT? Fetchmail and backup MX
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>         This question is not totally related, so I'm not sure
>> if I should post here or not.  Please redirect me if needed
>> or write me off-list.
>>
>>         Here is the situation:
>>
>> - I've got one MailScanner server (Fedora) as a Primary MX
>> that scans mail and then send it to my Exchange server.  The
>> MailScanner server is in a DMZ and Exchange in the LAN.
>>
>> - With my web hosting, I have enough pop accounts to cover
>> all my users, so I made this server my backup MX.
>>
>> Now it becomes less clear.  I have no idea of how to setup a
>> backup MX, so I can't tell if I can use my hoster's server as
>> a regular backup MX server.  What I would want is that when
>> my primary MX is down, mail goes to the backup MX and the
>> backup MX tries to send the messages back to the primary once
>> in a while. (this is, what I think, a regular use of a backup
>> MX.  But does the Primary have to do anything to tell the
>> backup mx that it is back online?
>>
>> What happens in my case is that the messages are sometimes
>> sent to the backup MX.  I don't know the cause but I guess it
>> is impossible that a server can respond to all requests all
>> the time.  But the messages stay on the backup MX (which is
>> normal in a case of e-mail hosting), so I must use fetchmail
>> to get any occasional message that goes to the backup MX.
>>
>> It works very well, but when I use fetchmail, spam checks are
>> not done because it comes from 127.0.0.1.  Maybe I could
>> re-enable spam checks on 127.0.0.1 since I don't generate a
>> lot of e-mail locally.
>>
>> Any idea about what I could do to make this work better?
>>
>> I know I could always buy a MailHop Backup MX from
>> dyndns.org, it is not expensive, but I prefer use my head
>> than money to solve problems.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Ugo
>>
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