Search Again: Trying to understand multiple MX records... From: Ryan Salazar Date: Friday, April 18, 2003 Time: 6:47:44 am Hello! I'm a bit confused as to how ISP's setup multiple mail servers and when one goes down, your clients email software knows to switch. How do you do that? I know that this is how I set it up Priority 10 mail.otownhosting.com Priority 20 mail2.otownhosting.com So, I'd like "10" to be the primary mail server for pop/smtp. Then, "20" kicks in if "10" is down. Am I correct in this? So, if an email client is configured to connect to mail.otownhosting.com and it goes down, how does it know to connect to mail2.otownhosting.com? And if it doesn't connect, how does mail2 get the mail to the normal server when it goes back up? Any explanation would help me BIGTIME right now..I have to implement this in a few hours. Thanks! Ryan

Messages In This Thread: Trying to understand multiple MX records... by Ryan Salazar on Apr 18, 2003 at 6:47:44 am Re: Trying to understand multiple MX records... by Len Conrad on Apr 19, 2003 at 1:22:42 pm Re: Trying to understand multiple MX records... by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Apr 20, 2003 at 12:03:52 am