On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Quost Support wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> We have Xmail on our 'primary' mail server (W2k), which manages the bulk of
> the email.
> However, we also need a 'secondary' or 'backup' mail server.
>
> When we installed Xmail on our RH Linux server, we noticed that the folder
> structure (in the users mailbox) was different - so we gave up that idea.
> Currently we have Xmail running on a second W2k server.
> The DNS MX records have been configured with different weights for the two
> servers.
>
> However what I'd like to know, is how to get any messages that are
> delivered to the backup server  (if the primary server goes down) sent to,
> or through, the primary server.
> We have only the address of the primary server configured in mail clients,
> so the backup server needs to send the mail to the primary server when it
> is back online, or the messages never actually get delivered.

setup the backup server with MX < of the primary one and use custom
domains with smtprelay lines.



> Btw, Thankyou Davide for xmail-1.9-pre03, I hope you still had time to
> watch the soccer.

Yes, of course ... but the real "game" for me is tomorrow morning 4:30 AM
(PST) :-)




- 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]

Reply via email to