On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Jan Patorra wrote: > hi, > > > Just use the big machine as primary MX/POP3 and the other ones that simply > > routes all traffic to this one. > > Using an "adequate" machine for primary MX/POP3 you can easily handle more > > traffic than your network link is probably going to permit. > > Well, at least if you don't have a 100Mbps link to the internet :) > > what if the big machine has a failure for some reason ? i think the multiple > mx thing prodivdes more redundancy, at least this > is the direction where i'm heading to...
If the primary machine goes down you'll still have the secondaries that are getting mail and as soon as you bring up the primary, they'll flush their queue. You probably want to give to secondaries a quite big expire time. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
