On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:45:55 -0400 (EDT), Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > 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
Dankjewel ;) That was so much easier then my idea with fail2ban! Martijn > > 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 >> >> >>
