Now do you really care where mail will be queueing up? I mean the senders' mail servers are not going to immediately reject mail to fgh.com if fgh.com is temporarily down. They will requeue and retry later.
Depending on how much mail fgh.com receives, do you want to fill up abc.com's hard drive with all the mail that is supposed to be rerouted to fgh.com? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phillip Stafford Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backup MX Anyone know the proper way for setting up 1 Exchange server to be another one's backup server? I have been searching high and low and have come upon several different supposed methods. None seem to work fully. Right now, what I have done is configured external DNS for domain B to have MX 20 (primary is MX 10) point to domain a. On Exchange server B, I have setup an SMTP connector with the domain name, the IP address for that exchange server listed in the smart host field, have configured within their to allow relaying through my server, etc. However, when we tried a test of this backup MX, I could not visibly tell whether my server was acting as a backup. I was looking at the SMTP queues and I couldn't find any messages listed for that connector even though I had been sending email to domain B and had not received any NDRs. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
