Setting up a Backup Mail Server

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Tue Apr 19 17:11:23 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 19 April 2005 11:57, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:45 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have my own domain, let's say: myrealname.org. I already set up a mail
> > server (mail.myrealname.org) and MX record for that domain, with MX = 10
> > and it works just fine.
> >
> > What I need help is with the following.
> > I want to setup a backup mail server with MX = 20, so in case the main
> > mail server is down, the backup mail server will collect the incoming
> > mail. The backup mail server, let's call it myothermachine.org is on
> > another network. How do I set up the backup mail server (using sendmail)
> > to do the following
>
> You may want to think about that since backup mx is a spam magnet. These
> days servers re-try for long enough durations to eliminate the need for
> backup mx.

Could you elaborate more how the backup mx could be any more of a "spam 
magnet" then the main MX ? I am interested to learn.

Thank you.
RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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