Re: [exim] mx backup and unwanted bounces

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Author: gerardi
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] mx backup and unwanted bounces


Keith Edmunds schrieb:

>On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:30:45 +0100, gerardi@??? said:
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>>So far its ok, but now exim on the backup mx server generates a bounce
>>message to the original sender of the message.
>>
>>any suggestions how I can stop the backup mailserver from bouncing 550
>>errors ?
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>It's probably the master MX that is generating the bounce
>

It is the Backup MX, I checked this in the Logfiles and the test bounce
message said it.

>, but anyway: one
>way you can do this is to replicate the user database (in some form) to
>the backup MX server, and check the validity of the destination username.
>We have a script that runs on the backup MX server and collates the valid
>recipients from the master and stores them in a local file. An ACL on the
>backup MX server checks against this file before accepting mail.
>
>

I have in Mind this two, but I do exactly know how to config exim to do
so and there are some Domains we are only the mx Backup,
so I do not know the Valid User.

I can check the User before accepting the mail when the Main Server is
available, but the main purpose of the Backup Server is to work
when the Main Server is not available.

Martin

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