Wes Owen stated the following:
>
> I'm using the stock version of Sendmail that come with Red Hat 6.2
> (Sendmail 8.9.3)
>
> I'm trying to setup backup mail servers, and my MX records in my named
> files look like this:
>
> IN MX 10 mail1.mydomain.com.
> IN MX 20 mail2.mydomain.com.
>
> I can get mail successfully at mail1.mydomain.com. However when I shutdown
> mail1's sendmail server, I see the follow errors in the log files of
> mail2.mydomain.com.
>
> Jan 9 22:55:55 ns4 sendmail[15332]: WAA15332: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> arg1=<wguy@my
> domain.com>, relay=ont-cvx2-26.linkline.com [64.30.218.26], reject=550 <wguy@
> mydomain.com>... Relaying denied
>
> I remember setting this up for redhat 5.2, and I had to put the domains I
> wanted backup mail for in a file called /etc/mail/relay_allow, and make
> sure that domain wasn't in my /etc/sendmail.cw file. I also remember
> editing the /etc/sendmail.cf file with some funny rulesets. I have
> searched high and low on the sendmail.org site, and I don't see anything
> that says backup mail server.
>
> Is the new sendmail smart enough to check the DNS settings and see if it is
> a backup mail server? Any suggestions on how to fix my problem up above?
Try the following link with your message. You'll definitely get an
answer.
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