Secondary Mailserver problem

[Gary Landers]

Thanks all, it was a long night and I thought I had the mail moved but
forgot to create a link to the mail partition, I was hoping someone knew
of an easy fix. I have been able to get about 80 of it moved before it
went too far.

Thanks again

Gary

Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> >I have mail server A that has always been the only mail server.
> >
> >I installed mail server B and moved all users to it and configured it to
> >be the primary mail server.
> >
> >I then set the mx records as
> >
> >         mx      10      mailserverB.xxx.com
> >         mx      20      mailserverA.xxx.com
> >
> >I expected A to forward its existing mail to B
> 
> nope
> 
> >new mail is routing properly to B but there is still old mail on A that
> >is not getting delivered.
> 
> where on A, in it's mail queue?  Is the MTA on A set up to relay mail
> for your domains to B, ie, is it really setup as an MX within itself
> well as just being listed in MX records?
> 
> >B is configured to accept mail for the domain and does.
> 
> of course
> 
> I think you've only done half the job, the DNS half. you also have to
> do the MTA bits within A to serve as relay server for the domains on
> B.  That's the pb I think.  Since I'm a postfix fan. I don't know how
> to tell how to set up sendmail as rely.  There's basically two
> concepts: what domains to accept mail for (relay domains) and what
> next-hop to send such mail.
> 
> Len
> 
> Len
> 
> >any ideas on what the problem is, I have gone over the sendmail.org
> >site, the bind archives and the cricket book.
> >
> >If this isnt the right place for this question please refer
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Gary Landers
> >Lewistown, Montana
> 
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Gary Landers
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Lewistown, Montana