Marcus Sobchak <lists@localguru.de> writes:
> Hi Andrzej,
>
> Am Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:17:52 +0100 schrieb Andrzej Adam Filip:
>
>> Marcus Sobchak <lists@localguru.de> writes:
>>> is it possible to deliver incoming emails for a single domain on a
>>> fallback MX to a local pop3-box, if the primary MX is down? A user of mine
>>> would like to be able to pop his emails even if his primary MX is down. My
>>> solution is to add my MX with a lower priority to the zone file and
>>> deliver all incoming emails for that domain at the fallback MX to a single
>>> pop3 box and just tell the user to check the pop box at the fallback
>>> every 10 minutes as well. Any other ideas are welcome :-)
>>
>> I would be trivial with "wide" patch not included into sendmail.org
>> distribution. It allows to select *another* mailers as delivery
>> fall-back. [AFAIK debian distributes additional sendmail variant with the
>> patch applied].
>
> It seems that Debian/sarge does not contain the package sendmail-wide
> anymore.
It is listed only in oldstable version of Debian.
>> With unpatched sendmail.org version of sendmail you can try routing
>> based on number of delivery attempts and keeping the messages to the
>> domain in separate queue group to allow more frequent retries.
>
> Very interesting! Do you have some Links for me? That would be great.
1) Example of routing based on number of retries and message size
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....323e8722410873
news:392FE09B.76431FBA@bigfoot.com
From: Andrzej Filip <a...@bigfoot.com>
Subject: RFF: Smarter Host
Date: 2000-05-27
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
2) selecting custom rule set via mailertable
http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/mrs.html
Mailertable Rule Sets (sendmail)
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