Search Again: Re: Spare MX From: Jeff Folk Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Time: 7:49:01 am > I had and (bad?) idea regarding the mailserver use and the DNS settings. > > As mail is very important to us I figured how to mak a insurance to make > the system up and working if a catastrophe hits. > > Running two mailservers mirroring each other makes a mess as they are no > (at least not with EIMS) simple way to synchronize accounts. > > So what if I specify a MX to a server that do not exist yet? Then when > server one is gone with the building in one place I can just start the mail > server in the other place that is ready to go to work. > Secondary mail servers usually just forward the mail to the primary when they are available. > This means that the backup mail will never be there to receive any mail > until needed when the 'number one' is gone. > This would hold the mail until the primary server is back online, not store it in a mailbox unless you have the server set to receive the mail as such. Regardless, the backup server would have a different host name and your mail customers would have to reconfigure their mail clients to retrieve mail from the new server. Regards; Jeff --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 2/25/2003

Messages In This Thread: Spare MX by Bo K. Engelbrecht on Mar 11, 2003 at 7:35:23 am Re: Spare MX by Jeff Folk on Mar 11, 2003 at 7:49:01 am Re: Spare MX by Bo K. Engelbrecht on Mar 11, 2003 at 8:19:59 am Re: Spare MX by Jeff Folk on Mar 11, 2003 at 8:26:54 am