No, the way you explained the backup MX configuration I do not have it configured that way. But I did NOT say in the beginning that one of the servers was a backup server. This point came up only later and I guess X is not actually a backup. The point of my question was that if I have two separate severs X and Y, some of the domains that where on X before rebuilt are now on Y, so why is X getting the 'relaying denied' messages for those domains that are now on Y and should be handled by Y MX? I believe this is a rephrase of my original question which has been answered by you. > Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb olga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx um 16:40: > >> No, server X does not relay for the domains hosted on server Y (I do not >> have relay-domains file on X for for those domains that are on Y). >> Should >> I have it? May it cause any problems -- a lot of unwanted mail, spam? >> X is only backup MX for the domains that are on Y. It has its own >> domains >> it handles. >> I do not have a mailertable file either (well, I do but, nothing is in >> there). > > You speak so straight forward about "backup MX" while I suspect you > don't really know what that means. Maybe you and we (those involved in > this thread) have different definitions for what a backup MX server is. > > Server X is only then a backup MX server if and only if it knows about > the domains the primary MX is responsible for! Else it is just a second > mail server for a different set of domains. In other words, if your > server X has only domains in the local-host-names files which are not in > that file on server Y you have no backup MX. You then have 2 independent > mail servers and a misconfigured DNS. In this sense Steve's questions > and hints were totally right. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435 > Serendipity 20:53:53 up 1 day, 19:32, load average: 0.43, 0.45, 0.39 > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
