Sendmail relay_allow question

["Anthony E . Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:21:00 Richard W. Gowen wrote:
> Something like this may have been covered in the past, but could someone
> refresh my memory?  I have two linux boxes on the internet.  One hosts email
> for the domain gowen.net.  I want the second one to store and forward emails
> to the first if the first is down for any reason (by using a higher value mx
> record on the second host).  In order to make the second box store and
> forward to the first, I put a gowen.net entry into the /etc/mail/relay_allow
> file and restarted sendmail.  Is that all I need to do?  I don't want to add
> the mx record for the second machine until I know its going to work
> correctly.  Has anyone else done this?  Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.

There's a very detailed article on this in the August 1998 issue of Linux Journal.

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