IMail should attempt message delivery as retries. In your environment I don't think you'll have any problems, provided you don't have any issues with WAN bandwidth.
The only issue will be how you handle MX failover, SPAM, and antivirus.... I trust you've already planned for Declude? -ives ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cris Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Peering > I have been unable to persuade the suits to allow *nix in the building > (for purely non-technical/non-financial reasons), so imgate is out for > the time being. > > If I just run I-mail peering, what happens if the first server can't > connect to the 2nd for a period of time ? Will it bounce mail as > undeliverable ? > > Cris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Peering > > > > >I was planning on > >1)backing up jvcmedia.com, deleting, and re-adding with an IP address; > > huh? > > >2)adding a jvcmedia.com host on atlmail. > >3)setting up a second MX record for jvcmedia.com pointed to the 2nd server. > >4)forwarding all jvcdiscusa.com mail to jvcmedia.com > > > >what do you think ? > > setup two imgate servers, run both as MX 10 for jvcmedia.com. > > setup both Imail machines as peers for jvcmedia.com > > each Imail relays out to IMGate > > each Imail exports its user list to each IMGate (I can point you to an > excellent tool for this). > > Incoming mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes to either IMGate and gets > relayed directly to the correct Imail box. > > If one IMGate goes down, all mail is routed through the other IMGate. > > If one IMail goes down, both IMGates will hold its mail until it comes back > up. > > There is no need for any SMTP traffic over the leased line, giving you a > lot of bandwidth back, as well as IMGate preventing all the peer > re-delivery traffic. > > Len > > _____________________________________________________________________ > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: New York; Seattle; Chicago > IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free > > > 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/ > > > 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/ > 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/
