postfix config

[william_holt at speakeasy.net (Bill Holt)]

No, I don't want to duplicat it. What I'm saying is if server 1.1.1.1 goes down, mail still gets to 1.1.1.2
Is there an order of precedence?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Metro [mailto:tm at vl.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 02:21 AM
> To: 'Bill Holt'
> Subject: Re: postfix config
> 
> Bill Holt wrote:
> > Does anybody know the correct syntax for adding multiple address 
> > for the same domain in the /etc/postfix/transport file?
> 
> > I have a mail gateway (redhat/postfix) and 2 exchange servers. I would
> > like to be able to relay the mail to both as I plan to decomission the
> > old one at some point.
> 
> Are you saying you want all messages duplicated and set to both exchange 
> servers? If so, that's an FAQ. I don't recall what the typical answer 
> is, but I don't think you're heading down the right track with 
> transports. You should be able to easily find the recommended approach 
> with a little searching through the Postfix mailing list archives.
> 
> Say for example:
> 
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/3dfda6df679bb2c4/a28e99639d97e305?q=%22copy+all+messages%22&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmailing.postfix.users%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dmailing.postfix.users%26q%3D%22copy+all+messages%22%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#a28e99639d97e305
> 
> or:
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/bd432ac7a7075c86/faa6962bcbdf95e3?q=duplicate+all+mail&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmailing.postfix.users%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dmailing.postfix.users%26q%3Dduplicate+all+mail%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#faa6962bcbdf95e3
> 
> 
> > example:
> > 
> > example.com smtp:1.1.1.1
> > example.com smtp:1.1.1.2
> 
> To start with, I think it should be:
> example.com smtp:[1.1.1.1]
> 
> See http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html:
> 
>    In the case of SMTP, specify  a  service  on  a
>    non-default  port  as  host:service,  and disable MX (mail
>    exchanger) DNS lookups with [host] or [host]:port. The  []
>    form is required when you specify an IP address instead of
>    a hostname.
> 
> 
> But as noted above, I don't think you can have duplicate patterns, or 
> multiple targets for one pattern, in the transports file.
> 
>   -Tom
>