[TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)

[Jon Carnes]

Secondaries are a piece of cake!  You simply bring up a mailserver (any one
you happen to like) and set it to relay mail for the primary domains.  Then
modify DNS and add the secondary, using a higher priority number than the
primary.  Done.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
Of Robby Dermody
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:56 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)


Interesting, I'm setting up another server soon and might try making it a
seconday MX as well.

The primary MX runs qmail and hosts mail for 4 or 5 domains. Does anyone
have a good resource on setting up a secondary MX? I'm wondering wheither I
need the mirror the configuration on the secondary box, or if I can just
have something that blindly caches all mail delivered to the domain(s) and
lets the primary MX deal with it when it comes back up. I'd like to use
postfix for the secondary server (as I am planning on shifting my primary to
postfix sooner or later).

TIA,

Robby

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Robby Dermody   <robbyd at avalonent.org> <AIM: robbyd523>
Where everyone goes, the grass never grows.  (Irish Proverb)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Lorenzin" <lorenzin at 1000plus.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:10 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] home mail servers (was Re: OT: flame on)


>
> andy wrote:
>
> > I'd like to understand a little more as to why.  I'm freeing up for time
> > shortly and I'm planning to set my own mail server up so that I can have
> > email thats at least as reliable as the postal service again
>
> in pursuit of reliability - one thing i'd suggest, from experience, is
> that you find someone (or several someones) to do secondary MX for you.
> service interruptions happen; they're a lot less frustrating when you at
> least have the consolation of knowing that your mail is queuing up for
> you.  it also helps to find a secondary on a different internet service
> than you are, so a single failure doesn't take you both down..
>
> lisa
>
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