SUMMARY: Sendmail novice

From: Adrian Phipps (AC) (PhippsAC_at_telkom.co.za)
Date: 04/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:39:56 +0200
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    Hi there,

    Thanks to Nicolas Figaro for his information. Apparently sendmail does
    not have this failover function but using a third party tool like bind
    can help.

    "sendmail doesn't know how to do this, but setting mx entries in your
    dns can help.

    Ask your dns administrator for this config, or grab bind at
    www.isc.org."

    Adrian Phipps

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Adrian Phipps (AC)
    > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:25 AM
    > To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
    > Subject: Sendmail novice
    >
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I have received a request from one of my users and it has got me
    > stumped since my knowledge of sendmail is very poor. He wants me to
    > setup sendmail that if the main relay server does not respond then
    > sendmail should use a failover server. Is this possible and if so
    > how do I specify to sendmail to use "SERVER2" when "SERVER1" is not
    > responding?
    >
    >
    >
    > Regards
    >
    >
    > Adrian Phipps
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