MailScanner, Mailwatch and additional MXs

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Ryan Weaver wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to install Mailwatch or the like on our main corporate mail
> gateway. We have 2 additional MX records pointing to machines outside our
> network to prevent loss of email if our mail server becomes unavailable. All
> servers run some flavor of RedHat (or derivative), sendmail and MailScanner.
> The secondary servers are also hosts for domains other than our own and must
> use MailScanner for that other mail.
> 
> My question involves the secondary mail servers and the way MailScanner
> handles the mail destined for the primary mail gateway. If MailScanner on
> the secondary mail servers process the email for the mail gateway, then
> Mailwatch on the mail gateway will not contain all the messages intended for
> it.
> 
> Is there a way to set the secondary servers to not process and simply store
> and forward messages headed for the mail gateway?.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 

Hmmm, why do you run MailScanner on the secondary MX if all messages end
up on the primary, which runs MailScanner?

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