Sendmail and backup MX

[Jeff A. Earickson]

You might want to look at smtptrapd for your high MX.  See:

http://smtptrapd.inodes.org

I run this on a second machine that does not run sendmail in
daemon mode (in fact none of my machines run sendmail except my
mail server).  It always gives a 400 "try again later" message.
It keeps the high-MX spammers busy, thus leaving my real mail 
server alone.

This didn't answer your question, but maybe this is what you
were thinking.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Scott Silva wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:13:22 -0700
> From: Scott Silva <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Sendmail and backup MX
> 
> Not a MailScanner issue, but ...
> Does anybody have any simple solutions for sendmail that only lets the
> backup MX accept mail when the primary is down?
> I don't want to re-invent the wheel if someone already has a working
> solution.
>
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