On Thursday, August 19, 2004, 07:13:32, Sharyn Schmidt wrote: > ... > The official host name, in Imail, which is todhunter.com on my current > mail server, would need to be the same on the 2nd mail server, I'm > guessing?? Can you have two servers with the same official host name?
You can associate more than one IP address with the same FQHN but then resolvers will randomly pick one or the other which is useful if you're trying to do load balancing but I don't think that's what you want. > What would be the best way to access webmail on the 2nd server, should > the first one go down?. > http://mail.todhunter.com:8383 would automatically try to connect with > the primary server. > > Ideally, I'd like the server address to be mail2.todhunter.com, or > something like that. A host record in DNS to point to mail2 with the > new IP address? Then, mx record with higher number pointing to that > host? Webmail address then becomes http://mail2.todhunter.com:8383 I'm not clear on exactly what you and/or your users expectations are. How frequently are you going to be syncing the two e-mail data stores? Are you planning on mirroring across a WAN? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
