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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sendmail, sendmail.cf, etc. Date: 4 Sep 1996 21:35:39 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 37 Message-ID: <50ksnb$oin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <50k72c$2ih@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <Dx7vG7.M2@ora.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Christoph Badura (bad@ora.de) wrote: : 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? The mail is waiting in the queue for BETA to come up. : Have you killed and restarted sendmail on ALPHA? Sure! : 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)? I tryed to send the mail to user@BETA from ALFA, it doesn't work, (though, I haven't tried in verify mode) thanks. IgoR : Hope that helps! : -- : Christoph Badura : O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag