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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad 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 Lines: 23 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