[ale] MX Record Questions?

[Joe Steele]

Sounds to me like it would be your server which is generating the 
warnings.  After all, your server is the only one which could possibly 
know that the mail has sat around for 4 hours without being delivered 
to the final recipient.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ryan Neily [SMTP:ryan at neily.net]
Sent:	Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:41 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] MX Record Questions?


I have a question about backup MX records for e-mail. I have a server that
is a backup MX for another domain, and it is correctly receiving e-mail
for that domain, and storing it in the /var/spool/mqueue directoy untill
the primary MX comes back up. What I am confused about is that when people
e-mail someone at the domain while the primary MX is down, they get an
return e-mail from their sendmail server wth a suject "Warning: could not
send message for past 4 hours".

Since the e-mail has been received (by the backup MX at least) is there 
any way to make it so that the e-mailing users sendmail server does not 
send this e-mail out?  It's confusing for Joe Schmoe user to get these 
e-mails, and it seems a little redundant. 

Thanks in advance...

-- 
Ryan Neily
ryan at neily.net


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