On 4/26/05, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
>  I've setup a machine to be a secondary mailserver and just queue up mail
> until the main mailserver comes back up.  I'm using sendmail (no, I can't
> change this one to postfix) and I've got it working using an entry in
> mailertable right now.  The only problem is that I'm not checking for valid
> users, so I queue up the mail and then when the mailserver comes back up a
> bounce message gets generated.  I don't want to do this, so i tried setting
> up aliases for all of the users and adding the main mailserver to
> local-host-names, but then the mail gets delivered locally.  Any ideas?

I just googled for "sendmail secondary valid email addresses".  This
first hit seemed to indicate what you want to do is possible:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-isp/2005-February/002796.html

scot