Alternative Mail Server

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streaker69
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Alternative Mail Server

Post by streaker69 »

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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Post by Linegod »

Shouldn't that be the job of your DNS? (MX 5, MX 10)
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Post by streaker69 »

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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[b]Poller Type[/b] - Cactid v
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[b]PHP[/b] - 5.2.9
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Post by apperrault »

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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Post by Linegod »

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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