[Postfixadmin-devel] Backupmx and redundant servers

[Oliver S. <ol...@sc...>]

 Hey all,

I am a happy user of postfixadmin, but have a question/comment.

I've gathered from the postfix mailing list that backupmx is practically
dead. Dead in the sense that you can't just be a backupmx, you do have
to actually know about the other hosts users or bounces, spam etc can
become issues for your hosts.

With that in mind, i've changed my mailsetup so that both my mailhosts
have identical users and alias tables. Domain tables already matched,
with the difference in backupmx flag.

Also note, that one server isn't the main and the other the backup, but
rather they each have their own domains, and are the backup for the others.

Ideally, I'd like to do all my postfixadministrating on one host, and
synchronize the db to the other host (pg_dump -> psql import for
example, whilst flipping the backupmx boolean). However the GUI at the
moment does not work for domains that have the backupmx flag.

I am unaware of a postfixadmin config setting that allows me to edit
backupmx'ed hosts anyway. If postfixadmin would (optionally) allow
editing of backupmx'ed hosts, then just copying the database will be ok
and easy.

Oliver