Yes, I know Ican't have two computers with the same ip address on the same
network. Having two e-mail servers, they would be different systems. The
problem is that I want they share the same @domain.com users and I want
IMail server sending not found users to the Netscape server.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Peering with Netscape Messaging server
> Fernando,
>
> You _cannot_ have 2 computers on a network with the same name and IP, at
the
> same time, it just will not work (conflicts!!). If one were off and the
> other on, then this might work, but it would not accomplish what you wish.
>
> The only way to to use the same name/IP would be to complete the
migration,
> then shut off the old server, and turn on the new.
>
> If you used different hostname and IP, then you could have both servers on
> at the same time and users could connect to the old, forward their old
mail
> to the new server and once completed, use only the new server.
>
> Again, PEERing in IMail, is ONLY with other IMail Servers.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> Ipswitch Technical Support
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fernando Manuel Simoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Peering with Netscape Messaging server
>
>
> The objective is to migrate from NMS to IMail - since I cannot have
> passwords in clear text from NMS so I can pass all accounts to IMail and
> have the same host name and ip address on the new IMail server (this way
> users wouldn't have to change their email client settings) - having both
> servers running while users confirm the passwords of new accounts on the
> imail server (assuming I can pass them except the correct password) using
> the IMail's HTTP server and a phone call. This way, the load on the old
NMS
> server (that's the problem with the NMS) would decrease while users would
> pacifically migrate from one server to another, changing only the server
> name on their email clients (or using the web interface from IMail).
> NMS doesn't accept traffic from the IMail server, even with the VRFY
command
> enable on both servers. I think th e peer functions doesn't work with
other
> servers than IMail.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Len Conrad
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 6:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Peering with Netscape Messaging server
>
>
> Does someone know how to get NMS3.62 to peer with IMail? I tried to
have
> IMail peering with netscape but netscape is rejecting deliver attemps from
> IMail.
>
> what's the error msg in NMS log?
>
>
> I have IMail with higher priority on DNS (lower MX value), sharing the
> same domain with NMS.
>
> So all mail for @somedomain.com goes to Imail first, and then Imail will
> send some of the mail to NMS using the VFRY command. What's your
objective?
> Imail's peering is "supposed" to share the load between servers of equal
MX
> preference values.
>
> (I never have understood how relaying 1/2 of the incoming mail to
another
> peered server is a lesser load that one unpeered server just delivering
all
> mail to itself.)
>
> Do you have the SMTP VRFY command enabled on both servers?
>
> Imail knows what Imail peering is. Does NMS know what Imail peering is?
>
> What have you told your users to put as SMTP server for outgoing mail?
> for POP3 server?
>
> Len
>
>
>
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