Re: [exim] building mail gateway

On 10/27/2004 10:33, "Genady Perchenko" <genady@???> wrote:

> If emails arrives to the
> prime server. the recipient is checked at mail acception time and
> rejected right away if no valid recipient found. In this case no bounced
> message is generated. However, if mail happened to land to the secondary
> server, then validation of the recipient did not happened yet and mail
> has been accepted in good faith to pass alone to the prim server later.

Various ways to fix the secondary server have been proposed (and you seemed
to like at least some of them).

Do you *need* a secondary server? The simplest fix is to get rid of it.
Let the world's servers queue your mail when primary happens to be down...it
shouldn't happen often.

--John