Virtualmin 3.87, secondary mail servers

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#1 Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:43
sfatula

Virtualmin 3.87, secondary mail servers

So, the new 3.87 says that the secondary mail server will receive a list of valid addresses from the master. Which I've always wanted! Great. But a question - what if the secondary server is a secondary to TWO masters? Will it combine the lists (hopefully)? The doc page references this feature, but, doesn't say what happens when a secondary is a secondary to multiple masters, which we do.

I am concerned this will actually break our secondaries since we had to manually manage this.

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 18:46
andreychek

Howdy,

It should indeed work with two masters.

No existing domains should be "clobbered" when new addresses are replicated out to the secondary mail server.

That said -- I'd of course always recommend having backups, just in case :-)

-Eric

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 23:10
sfatula

Domains always worked with multiples. It's each individual user. So, you are saying it should combine the lists from multiple master mail servers into one relay_recipients file correctly.

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 23:16
andreychek

Yup, I had asked Jamie, and he said it should work just fine with multiple masters :-)

-Eric

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 23:17
sfatula

The, this is a wonderful new feature indeed! I suppose I should close my request from long ago then in the support queue.

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 23:19
sfatula

Yep, closed issue 3930 from Feb 2009. We can now get rid of our own special logic to download and combine these. Thanks!

Thu, 08/18/2011 - 17:27
sfatula

The changelog for 3.87 for GPL doesn't mention any changes for this. Speaking of when used on a backup mx.

Thu, 08/18/2011 - 19:10
andreychek

I don't think it would matter whether you have Virtualmin Pro or GPL on the backup server. In fact, I suspect it's Webmin that's actually performing the magic on the remote server.

-Eric

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