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Re: Question regarding permit_backup_mx & relay_domains

From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 17:37:47 CDT


On Sunday, September 03, 2006 at 00:33 CEST,
     Jim Keller <jim_kellercenterfuse.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response. Another thing I forgot to mention is
> that when I simulated a downed primary MX, the mail was queued
> properly on the secondary MX (via an explicit relay_domains entry),
> but I received log warnings such as "warning: [secondary mx host]
> greeted me with my own hostname". Everything was delivered fine once
> the primary MX was back up, but I'm wondering if these log warnings
> are normal?

No, they're not. Your backup MX is connecting to some host that
in the connection banner announces its hostname to be $myhostname.

Stop top-posting.

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Magnus Bäck
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