On the Imail Backup server put an entry in your
System32/drivers/etc/hosts file something like this.
primarydomain.com mail.primarydomain.com 10.0.0.1
Then point your dns something like this.
server.domain.com. IN A 10.0.0.2
mail.primarydomain.com. IN A 10.0.01
secondaryserver.domain.com. IN MX 20 server.domain.com.
primarydomain.com. IN MX IN MX 10 mail.primarydomain.com.
Anytime primarydomain.com is down secondaryserver.com
will hold the mail until it come back up.
Dusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Jones, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] backup mail server?
Don't I have to configure something to make it work... If not, I guess that
anyone could use anyone else's email server as a backup... I would think
that would be undesirable.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] backup mail server?
> Jim,
>
> I assume your first (main) Imail server has the preference number of 0,
> right? Then all you need to do is to add another MX record into the DNS
> server with the pref. no. of 10 and the name of the server is the backup
> Imail server
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Jones, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 2:26 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] backup mail server?
>
>
> >How would I configure IMail to be a backup mail server?
> >
> >By backup mail server, i mean, the one that is pointed to with a higher
> >preference number in an MX record.
> >
> >Thnks,
> >
> >Jim
> >
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