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Old 01-24-2008
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sendmail.cf

we have two mail servers and want to setup failover for DR.

we have a line in sendmail.cf like this

Code:
DS smtp.domain.com
and this works fine......

we changed it to

Code:
DS smtp1.domain.com smtp2.domain.com
this is bad, we get errors of savemail panic and many bounce messages and such. the errors say cont find server smtp1.domain.com.smtp2.domain.com



our two solutions to the problem are

version 1
Code:
DS [smtp1.domain.com] [smtp2.domain.com]
version 2
Code:
DS smtp1.domain.com:smtp2.domain.com



both seem to work but I assume that one is more correct than the other.
looking for some education as to what the diffcence is.

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I don't know if " : " would work, but putting "DS[smtp1.domain.com]" will disable MX record lookup, so this should be valid.
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