On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:27:43PM +0300, Rossen Naydenov said:
> Hi guys,
>
> As we are building new email architecture we need to test it before
> putting it into production. I was wondering how to test it as we do not
> have MX record set. Without this we cannot send and receive legitimate
> mail right?
Use the various test options in exim, and then whn you want to test
sending from external machines and see how it does, use the percent_hack
trick - user@server%gateway.com.
> I guess we should point the MX record to the email gateway when we
> start(see below).
Yes.
We do the same thing at one of the places I admin the mail machines at -
we have two front end machines, round-robin'ed, and they do all the
filtering and pass back to the real server. We use callouts to verify
recipient, but we're moving to LDAP soon, so we can start moving away
from that.
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