Hi Everyone -
We currently have a backup mail server in place. I have a new box that I
want to put in it's place, but before I duplicate it on the new one, I want
to be sure what we have is set up properly.
While looking through the archives, I found a post that said:
<snip>
A secondary mail server is just another mail server. You need to change
your DNS MX
records to include the secondary mail server (for example, if you now have
an MX
record that points to mail.your_domain.com with a preference of 10, you
could add
another mail2.your_domain.com with a preference of 20). Then, you MUST set
up that
secondary mail server to accept mail for your domain(s) (many people forget
this very
important step).
</snip>
I'm not sure that is the way our backup mail server is set up, so I don't
want to duplicate the wrong system.
At the present, we have it set up as follows:
- the server is set up as the host mail2.ourdomain.com. There are
no other hosts - virtual or primary - that are set up.
- all of the domains which we host mail for on the primary server
are listed in the hosts file, using the IP address of the primary server
- mail relay is set up only for 127.0.0.1 and the ip of our primary
server
Does this sound correct, or is there more? By the "<snip>" above I think
that I'm still missing something else regarding the "important" step. Is
there any more information on how to set this up? I did look through the
manual but didn't find much more information on it.
If anyone has any suggestions or feedback on this, I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
Todd
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