----- Original Message -----
From: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 6 Sep 2000, at 8:26, Dave Sill wrote:
>
> > >Wut? qmail supports fallback smtp hosts.
> >
> > If you're referring to alternate MX's, that's not the same thing as
> > Sendmail's fallback host. With Sendmail, if the first delivery attempt
> > fails, the message can be passed off to a fallback host for subsequent
> > delivery attempts.
> >
> > Hmm...maybe if you set queuelifetime to 0 and redirect bounces to
> > another host somehow you could achieve the same effect.
>
> A better way seems to try qmail-remote yourself, and if it fails,
> inject the mail to another qmail's queue via qmail-qmqpc. Interfaces
> to both qmail-remote and qmail-qmqpc are well documented.
I can't possibly believe you advise this as a 'better' way unless you're
expecting the issue to occur only once a day or less. If the user wants
this feature, it may not be available in qmail, but I wouldn't advise manual
intervention on a server for such an automate-able event.
