My goal is to have a Postfix mailserver set up to accept mail for other
Postfix servers running multiple domains 'if and only if they are not
accessible'. I have been using Sendmail with milter-ahead set to:
"+backup-mx
For a backup MX or gateway, accept mail when the down stream mail
server is unreachable or when the server returns 421 server busy or 554
no service responses."
This provides a catchall system if and only if a primary server is not
accessible, thus eliminating the spam sent intentionally to the backup
system. Over the years this has worked great.
My searches are finding bad advice and not much in the way of this
particular need. (I remember having the same problem years ago when
trying to find something for Sendmail). It seems that the term backup is
a bit too broad a meaning for this purpose.
Anyway, if anyone has some good advice on what to use or where to start
reading, I would appreciate it.
And yes, sorry for the subject line yet again... It seems that secondary
MX server might be a better description?
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