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Hi
Mail Servers & DNS
From: Peter Bancroft
Date: Saturday, October 9, 1999
Time: 6:59:00 am
I've been playing around with primary and secondary mail servers.
My setup is as follows:
1. Mac 7100 Webstar + IPNetRouter + FMP
2. Mac IIci Primary DNS + Mail 1 (MX = 10) ; QDNS + EIMS 1.3
3. Mac IIci Secondary DNS + Mail 2 (MX = 20) ; QDNS + EIMS 1.3
I have set up a test mail account: peter@webserver.com.au
When I send email to this account everything works OK. I can shut down
machine 2 ie primary DNS and Mail1, and machine 3 picks it all up and looks
after DNS and _forwarding_ of email. Also If I shut down machine 3,
secondary, the Primary picks up every thing for _forwarding_ of email.
My problem is that I need to configure an email client to pick up email
that is being _stored_ at my site. For example, Eudora needs to be pointed
to either mail1 or mail2 but not both. If mail1 is shut down, then eudora
cannot connect to mail2.
Is there a DNS way of fixing this? I tried quite a few experiments along
the lines of aliasing (CNAME) both mail1 and mail2 to a generic
mail.webserver.com.au
TIA for any advice.
Peter Bancroft
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webserver.com.au PO Box 359, South Yarra VIC 3141, AUSTRALIA
mailto:peter@webserver.com.au Ph (03) 9379 0553 +61 3 9379 0553
http://www.webserver.com.au Fax (03) 9379 9167 +61 3 9379 9167
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