>Suppose that we have 2 offices with 2 seperate Imail servers, Server1 and
>the other Server2. Can we set them up to relay addresses for each other so
>that whenever one server goes down, the other will temporarily hold the
>emails?
You could have two different offices handle mail for
each other.
Office One:
server1domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.server1domain.com
server1domain.com. IN MX 20 mail.server2domain.com
Office Two:
server2domain.com IN MX 10 mail.server2domain.com
server2domain.com IN MX 20 mail.server1domain.com
In the above example if mail.server1domain.com is down,
mail.server2domain.com will store its mail until it comes up
or the retries timeout.
>And also, if i put this on my DNS,
>remotedomain.com IN MX 20 your.domain.com
>remotedomain.com IN MX 10 mail.remotedomain.com
>Will all the remotedomain's email pass through my mail server first before
>it will be delivered to their server?
Think about it like this. The lower the number the higher the priority.
So in your example above, if mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then the sending MTA will attempt to send it to mail.remotedomain.com
first. If it is not available then it will attempt to send to
you.domain.com.
Dusty
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