Just a thought/question. I have had a backup server running for the last
year or so now, and it works great. But I was wondering if anyone out
there have any thoughts on setting up the backup server to accept all
pop3 connections no matter what the username/password, but of course,
deliver no mail. The problem is that when the system is in failover
state, and pointing to the backup server, when a client tries to
retrieve their email most email clients prompt for the username/password
if they are not automatically authenticated. Often, the user will
attempt to put in a different username or password, and screw up their
settings, when they are in fact actually correct.
This could save a lot of time explaining to users how to setup their
email client after everything rolls back to the primary server, not to
mention saving a lot of time on the phone telling people that yes, the
mail server is on the backup now, and explaining why, etc etc. It could
provide a more seamless failover, will most of the people not ever
realizing the primary server went down.
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