>I am going to need to shut down my IMail (NT4.0) server for a couple
>of hours or more to rearrange a server farm and switch frame (and
>basically the entire TC). Should I have something in place to catch
>incoming mail for my users boxes?
not really, since most mailserver try to send mail to an unreachable
host for many hours or days before giving up.
>I am not concerned about my users
famous last words, vbg
>If you think I need to have a temporary backup, how should I handle it?
For a couple of hours, concentrate on your other work.
>Once the original one comes back up, how would I then push the
>caught mail to it from the backup server?
for really long outages, DNS provides the multiple MX facility that
allows your primary MX to be unreachable and a backup MX machine will
accept your mail and try to forward to your MX, so when you come back
up, the backed up mail will come pouring in automatically.
Len
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