Re: [IMail Forum] IMail as an Exchange backup?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail as an Exchange backup?



>Is it possible to have IMail be a backup to an Exchange mail
>server so that if the Exchange server went offline then IMail
>would take over and receive the email msg's and once Exchange came
>backup, it would take back over.

yes, of course, "backup MX" and relaying is clearly explained in the
Imail6 manual.

>This is how i see it working "somehow"
>1) 2 mx records are created for the domain with the exchange
>server recieving the first priority and the Imail receiving the
>last so that if the exchange server can not be reached then imail
>could receive the email.

Wow, are you just making this up?  This is EXACTLY how the RFC's and
various books describe it.

>2) the Imail server would have a bag account

oops, here you "somehow" drive off into the ditch.

No MX other than the top MX has any mail duplicate or "bag"
accounts/mailboxes on behalf of the top MX.   They only have mail
spooling facilities.

Could he be refering to a nobody account on the Imail machine?

>*now this is the **ghost** part that I'm not sure of*

good, erase Casper the Friendly from your fertile imagination. poof!!  :))

Per MS new pricing/billing, ghost require a new license for each machine
ghosted.  Please direct your questions, payments and gun fire to Redmond WA.

>3) exchange would be setup to connect to an outside email account
>and pull all email from that remote box, and then distribute it to
>its own mail boxes when they are received.

no, the "non-top" MX's "push" their stored/queued mail towards the
top MX, which never "pulls" the mail from the non-top MX's (how would
it know it's out there?)

It sounds a bit like etern?  I know that we have done this previously, but
the brains behind it as well as the customer asking for it have both gone
with the wind.

>Now #3 is the one i don't understand if its possible at all or
>not.  I am not the exchange administrator and its been a few years
>since i've worked on it.  Can someone help?

"Lire le foutu manuel", as we say en Français. :)))

Len


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