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streaker69
Cacti Pro User
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 626
Location: Psychic Amish Network Administrator
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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:43 am Post subject: Alternative Mail Server |
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| Could the Settings plugin be modified to include a secondary mail server to send mail through in case the primary mail server goes down? |
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Linegod
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Joined: 20 Feb 2003
Posts: 448
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Shouldn't that be the job of your DNS? (MX 5, MX 10) |
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streaker69
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Joined: 27 Mar 2006
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Location: Psychic Amish Network Administrator
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| Linegod wrote: | | Shouldn't that be the job of your DNS? (MX 5, MX 10) |
If I actually had multiple mail servers that I wanted to forward all the corporate mail through, sure.
But since I don't, my plan was in case my local mail server fails, send Cacti alerts through my personal ISP mail account. |
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apperrault
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Joined: 16 Feb 2007
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Location: Emeryville, CA
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:04 am Post subject: |
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I love the idea. we normally route all of our mail through our Exchange server, but if that connection fails, i would like to be able to get notifications from our monitoring system, so i would love to use our external relay. I will mark this page and see if anyone has any other ideas for implementing this.
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Linegod
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: |
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I guess it could be possible - IIRC, the settings mailer functions do check for SMTP connectivity, so it could be set to fallback on those specific errors.
It still seems kludgey to me - proper redundancy in the mail and access architecture should take care of this.... |
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