Re: MX server and relays

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 01:52:59 EDT


On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:18:29PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote:

> I like that pronouncement: "doomed". ;-)
> well, i was going to use a second postfix box as a pseudo-proxy, as
> suggested in an earlier post by Dr Hildebrandt but thought to use our

Mr., no Dr.

> firewall's proxy which is, by all accounts, reasonably good.

You're running what? Watchguard (not good), CISCO PIX (not good)

> So, (if I take the proxy out of the equation) then if a groupware
> server is down, the postfix server will queue the mail until the
> groupware server is up. If the postfix server is down (not likely
> but...), then i presume mail will be queued at the secondary MX server
> at our ISP's.

Yep.
No mail is lost unless a disk blows up with the queuefiles on it.

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