[geeks] Commiserate with me ... this sucks./Postfix

[Mike Meredith]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:49:10 -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 08:16, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > If you have a hardware RAID, make sure you have a spare RAID
> > controler in a drawer. If you have not, your RAID controler will

Or make sure you have a good hardware maintenance contract (hardly
likely for home I know).

> I have actually had a RAID controller fail, and used Software RAID
> under Linux to reconstruct the RAID array.  

I wouldn't like to rely on that ... some RAID controllers do weird,
wacky, and undocumented things. Some of those wacky things are quite
nice ... like write the configuration data to multiple disks rather than
rely on nvram to work all the time.

> It was actually faster
> using Software RAID than it had been using the controller, but

You see lots of people recommend hardware RAID over software RAID (for
good reasons), but the main difference is that the CPU processing is
offloaded so if you've got idle CPUs, offloading the RAID processing may
not buy you much. Mind you the external RAID boxes like A1000s, T3s, and
StorEdge 3510s are great fun to play with.

Postfix. I know it's bad form asking trivial questions, but I know
there's people around here who will probably be able to answer this off
the top of their heads. I would research this myself but I'm on leave
for two weeks and really want to get this little bit working before.

What I've got is a server running Postfix 1.1.12 which has got *some*
local users in a mail domain, but most users are on another server. What
I want to be able to do is to relay all mail for unknown recipients to
another server for processing. What I came up with (amongst other
weirdities) was :-

	fallback_transport= smtp:some.server.org

But this doesn't work. Any clues ?