Re: [Exim] Backup Mail server

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 08:31:05AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
>
> > The original sender's server trys to contact the main server and it
> > fails. It then sucessfully contacts the backup and delivers the
> > message.
> >
> > The backup then tries to contact the main server and fails, then
> > contacts the backup (itself) and delivers the message. Then the new
> > message goes through the entire process again! It contacts the main
> > and fails, then contacts the backup and delivers... and so on and so
> > on...
>
> Do you do any address rewriting?

None whatsoever.

> What exactly do the logs say about this?

They show the same thing, that the server attempts to deliever to the
main server, fails, then contacts itself and sends the message. It
does this repeatedly.. And, it gives each additional message a new
message ID...