Oops. Forgot to mention that the incoming mail would not be lost during the
outage of one machine. It would simply be spooled according to your smtp
settings and delivered to the 'correct' peer machine when it comes back on
line.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Peer list using diff. NT machine
>It's my understanding that the 'peering' option of Imail is used to
>distribute the user accounts across multiple machines. It does not
actually
>provide redundancy for each user account.
>
>For example,
> users [EMAIL PROTECTED] are handled by machine1.company.com
> users [EMAIL PROTECTED] are handled by machine2.company.com
>
>If machine1 fails, users A-M will *not* be able to check their mail until
it
>is available again.
>
>In addition, you must inform your users which machine they need to connect
>to to retrieve mail.
>
>A-M must use machine1.company.com, N-Z must use machine2.company.com,
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raymond Dy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:57 AM
>Subject: [IMail Forum] Peer list using diff. NT machine
>
>
>>Dusty and friends,
>>
>>I would like to ask you if you can help me set my 2 servers for a single
>>domain. Instructions from you is really appreciated. btw, what are the
>>advantages of having peer servers besides redundancy?
>>
>>Raymond
>>
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