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From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: sendmail, sendmail.cf, etc.
Message-ID: <Dx7vG7.M2@ora.de>
Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag
References: <50k72c$2ih@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:36:07 GMT
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In <50k72c$2ih@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) writes:
>I need to set the sendmail (host ALFA) so that it can receive e-mails
>for another machine (host BETA) if that one is down, and not just receive,
>but DELIVER them locally (i.e. to the mailboxes at ALFA), as if they
>were send to this host.

>Ok, I set MX records to have ALFA as a forwarder for BETA with the low
>precedence.
>on ALFA:
>I tried to include BETA in Cw (which is enough for IRIX for example).
>I tried to include BETA in sendmail.cw
>this doesn't help.

*How* doesn't that help?  What is the actual error?

Have you killed and restarted sendmail on ALPHA?
Have you verified that it works in address test mode (sendmail -bt)?
Have you verified that it works in verify moded (sendmail -bv postmaster@BETA)?

Hope that helps!
-- 
Christoph Badura
O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag