[CLUE-Tech] Store and forward

[Chris Schock]

Check out the FAQ on sendmail.org, I had a nearly identical question and
found the answer there. There site was somewhat clunky to navigate, but
they cover a wide range of how-tos, and this is a common one.

> 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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