Oh i got it now. So, it's more on the DNS settings. So should both of our
offices have it's own DNS server? Will Imail will refer to the hosts file
of WindowsNT even though I am using NT-Bind?
Thank you very much Dusty.
Raymond
----- Original Message -----
From: ## Dusty Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS
> >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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