[CLUE-Tech] Store and forward

[Dave Hahn]

Sounds like you want to act as a backup MX server for the domain.  Check 
the backup/secondary MX sendmail information for details.

-d

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

>
>> sendmail does store-and-forward by default when it is in the
>> queue mode.  (O DeliveryMode=)
>>
>> The choices for delivery mode include interactive, background,
>> and queue.  The latter two are store-and-forward - the last
>> one requires that something happen to cause the queue to run
>> (like a cron job that makes sendmail -q run), or else -bd -q5m on the 
>> command line, to cause it to run the queue every 5 minutes when 
>> running as a daemon.  (You can set whatever queue interval you want 
>> of course.)
>>  
>>
>
> I guess I really want to use background.  My problem is, if mail comes 
> in for domain.com and there is no "user" set up for that domain (even 
> though I'm accepting it in local-host-names), aren't they going to get 
> a bounce back saying the mailbox does not exist?
>
> Angelo
>
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