>Larry Stone wrote:
>
>>A thought just occurred to me: this backup server needs to be configured
>>to relay the mail to you.
>
>Well, this "backup" mail server is my ISP's mail server and I probably
>can't get them to reconfigure it. I made it my backup sever by entering
>it into my DNS' MX records with a lower prio than my SIMS.
>
>With that, the backup mail server has know knowledge of the existing
>of my server at all unless it knows that it has to look up the MX
>records by itself and find that it should not keep the msgs but
>deliver them to the higher prio server. Is that what a properly
>configured unix mail server would do automatically?
>
>Thomas
>
Hi again,
The secondary server will most definitely have to be configured to
know that it both:
a: should be accepting mail for your domain - it will most likely refuse
mail for your domain unless the administrators specifically configure it to
recieve
b: forward mail on to your server once it can gain access to your primary
again.
It's just like you have to configure your SIMS server to accept
mail for a particular domain.
Any good ISP worth their salt should be able to configure their
mail server to accept & then forward mail on to your primary - most ISPs
will only recieve mail for your domain, but not allow you to send out
through their server.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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