You can direct your mx record anywhere you want.
But most other mail servers wouldn't accept mail addressed to your
domain.
"Jim Jones, Jr." wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > ***************************************
> > Dan Nguyen from Hotbiz.com,
> > Your Online Office.
> > ***************************************
> >
> >
> > -----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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