topic Re: about sendmail & mail.pl in Operating System - HP-UX

about sendmail & mail.pl

ust3 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:20:01 GMT

I use mail.pl to send the mail out to Lotus notes server , I have configure the relay mail host in sendmail.cf to the notes server , now if I want set another mail server as the redundancy ( that means if the notes server going down, it will automatically send to another server ) , is it possible ? thx

# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSmy_notes_server

Re: about sendmail & mail.pl

whiteknight — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:50:47 GMT

hi uts3,

It is possible :-

To configure SendMail to use more than one Relay Server, edit the

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf

file and simply specify the hosts separated by a colon with no
spaces. For example:

DShostA:hostB:hostC

SendMail will always try hostA first. If hostA does not respond,
or responds incorrectly, then SendMail will try hostB and then hostC.

WK
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