> On Saturday 30 June 2001 04:43, Eirik Dentz wrote: >> My question is this: The DNS is under the jurisdiction of the IS >> department and the MX record @mydomain.org is set up to point at their >> email server. Does it make sense and is it possible to set up another >> MX record: @lists.mydomain.org which will point at the web server? > > It is definately possible. It makes sense to me, this is what MX records > were designed for!
Thanks. I thought so, but I don't have first hand experience setting this up, and I didn't want to make a fool of myself asking the IS guys, so I figured I'd make a fool of myself here instead ;-) > > Of course you'll have to convince the IS department to change their DNS > server... Oh I'm not too worried about convincing them. They'll be relieved that they aren't being asked to do anything more than this. > >> I realize that it is generally a bad idea to set up your web server to >> do double duty as an email server. Any ideas regarding at what message >> volume a mail server will have a serious negative impact on a web >> server running on the same machine would be appreciated. > > If a primary duty of the web server is to manage the mailing lists then > IMHO it makes a lot of sense to have this! > > Of course this means that you have a lot of important things on one box. > Considered a cluster arrangement of some sort? Well it actually hosts the company web site, so doubling it up as a mailing list server probably isn't a good idea. On the other hand a cluster arrangement does sound like a good idea. Any suggested reading on setting up web/email/database server clusters? Thanks for taking the time to respond. eirik