Martijn de Munnik: > Hi, > > Our smtp server has some issues when talking to some remote mx's. This > results in a timeout and the message not being delivered (this was > discussed on this mailinglist but there doesn't seem to be a real > solution available now). When we relay the message through another > server the remote mx happily accepts the message. I only want to relay > messages through the other server when a timeout occurs. I was thinking > of using fail2ban for this. I want to watch the maillog with fail2ban > and when timeouts appear I want fail2ban to write a line to the > transport??? map. How do I redirect messages with a certain destination > mx to another mail server (one of our relays)?
See: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_fallback_relay Wietse > > Example: > > mail to i...@goofyandtheregulars.com will be delivered to > mx-cluster-b1.one.com or mx-cluster-b2.one.com. But will give a timeout > when talking to that machine. So I want to redirect message to > mx-cluster-b1.one.com and mx-cluster-b2.one.com to mx2.youngguns.nl. > > thanks, > Martijn > > >
