How to setup Mailbag

[Michele Neylon::Blacknight Solutions]

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Fernando wrote:
> Hello, sorry if I didn't include something that could have been useful,
> I'm not too familiar with linux in general so I'm not
> sure where to start.
>
> Currently I have a RH 8 server scanning messages using
>
> Mailscanner/sendmail/AV. There are about 25 domains on this  scanner but
> everything is set to relay to another email server with IMail and one
> domain points to an exchange server.
>
> Needless to say that the exchange server is down every other weekend so
> what I would like to do is keep the email's 'mailbagged' on the RH
> server whenever the exchange server goes down. It would only be for the
> specific domain, I don't want to turn this feature on for all of the
> domains.
>
You shouldn't have to do anything special as sendmail normally queues
mail for 5 days by default, so if the receiving mail server is
unreponsive the mail should not be lost - works for us :)

Michele

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