Search Again: Re: MX priorities... From: Jeff Folk Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 Time: 6:01:10 pm A secondary (backup) mailserver simply holds mail for the primary until it can be forwarded to the primary when it comes back online. The MX entry is only used in sending mail from MTA to MTA, not at the mail client level. There are no mailboxes involved. It may be possible to 'load balance' a mail server, but unless you have extremely high volume, not worth the trouble. Jeff On Jul 19, 2004, at 6:24 PM, Clark Lowry N7AAC wrote: > I have been slow to put in a secondary mail server because I am not > sure how this is handled by the e-mail client. Does it automatically > check both servers or do you have to configure some kind of forward.

Messages In This Thread: MX priorities... by Jeff Justice on Jul 17, 2004 at 6:25:53 pm Re: MX priorities... by Jeff Folk on Jul 18, 2004 at 7:01:44 am Re: MX priorities... by Clark Lowry N7AAC on Jul 19, 2004 at 4:25:20 pm Re: MX priorities... by Jeff Folk on Jul 19, 2004 at 6:01:10 pm Re: MX priorities... by Guy Jones on Jul 19, 2004 at 9:53:33 pm