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William ,
To achieve redundancy for SMTP service ,
you may play the old DNS game , that is in your DNS you assign MX record like
this
mydomain.com.
IN MX 10 primary.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com.
IN MX 20
secondary.mydomain.com.
But for the POP3 I think your users will
assign to mail servers for the same account (no need to another identities) ,
but when they use Webmail , no way but using URL of each machine.
Regards,
Waleed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:05
AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Server
Redundancy
Hello everyone,
I have a quick question about
setting up imail servers for redundancy. I know this has probably
already been addresses a thousand times, but please be patient I am a newbee
to this list.
Problem:
I have 2 physical locations I run my servers out
of. These locations are not linked in any way other than the
internet. I would like to setup a second email server at my 2nd location
that will handle all pop and smtp activities if my primary location goes
offline. I need the pop and smtp to be active at all times to eliminate
any downtime that my users may experience. I have an idea that would
work, but it would take all of my users using to accounts (one on each server)
and checking both of them all the time. They would also have to switch
identities if the primary server went down. I would like to make all of
this work transparent to the user.
Please let me know if you have any
ideas.
By the way.. My primary server is ver 6.02
and I will be purchasing new code for my secondary server.
Thank you,
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