Thanks alot. I will research this for best implementation. I am hoping to create a mail server pool for failover. My only dilemma is DNS resolution of mail server addresses.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gene Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Distributed Qmail Configuration > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 07:43, Gene Grimm wrote: > > Is there any information available anywhere about configuring Qmail for > > distributed mail delivery with one Qmail system receiving as the Mail > > eXchanger and relaying selective domains to specified remote Qmail POP > > servers? > > > > If I understand correctly, I think what you want is an artificial smtp > route. Add to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes: > > domain.com:pop.domain.com > > This will relay mail destined for domain.com to the pop.domain.com > server. The qmail program at pop.domain.com should be setup to handle > the domain.com email locally (and subsequently allow pop3 access to it). > Don't forget to add domain.com to the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file > on pop.domain.com! > > Specific information on the smtproutes control file can be found in the > qmail-remote man page. Another good general qmail info source is > qmail.org if you haven't found it already. > > Jeff >
