> From: Chris Garrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:29:49 -0600
>
> I'm in the midst of a problem and I can't figure out how to have qmail help
> me
> out of it.
>
> I now have two mail systems in deepeddy.com: highdive.deepeddy.com is
> co-located somewhere with real connectivity; backstroke.deepeddy.com is my
> system here at home. I've got some mailing lists on deepend, but most mail
>
> into the domain is for me on backstroke. I set things up so that the MX
> records would all point at highdive and installed .qmail and .qmail-default
>
> files in my directory there which forward my mail to backstroke.
>
> There's a minor annoyance in that when I send mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] it gets bounced via the other system. Th
> is
> minor annoyance just became a major annoyance because highdive is down. (I
> t's
> a free co-location in another city.) This means no mail to deepeddy.com is
>
> working at all since it all points at the down system. It would be real ni
> ce
> if mail to me here would work.
>
> So, this is what I tried to do:
>
> ~alias/.qmail-makeitlocal:
>
> | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" -- "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:makeitlocal
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:makeitlocal
>
> and then fix the DNS to allow mail to get delivered to backstroke as well a
> s
> the now down highdive.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] does the right thing as do things like
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it's annoying to have to create so many of thes
> e,
> and it can't possibly catch dynamically generated addresses (like this one
> has
> on it....you'd better either change the host to backstroke.deepeddy.com or
> change the user to cwg-qmail if you expect me to see your reply).
>
> So, how can I get my mail unwedged between now and when I get the highdive
> fixed?
Never mind. I was clearly making things much to complicated. Solved the
problem...now I just need the DNS to propagate.
Chris
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