Hi Glynn,
Just a bit off topic :)
If you intend to run both mail servers side by side you will need to (or
your ISP) mess about with your DNS. DNS is not intelligent so it will send
email to the mail server with the highest priority (1 being the highest). If
you configure the DNS for both mail servers to have the same priority then
the mail will be delivered in a round robin style. This is no good if you
have half your mail users on 1 server and the other half on the 2nd server.
This is because the mail will get rejected if it gets delivered to the wrong
mail with a user unknown error server.
You could set-up sub domains off you main domain and have a mail server for
each domain and masquerade these behind a mail server in the main domain
which is doing mail forwarding of users mail to the correct mail server.
Alternatively if you are just replacing the mail server straight out, then
all you need to do is add an entry for it in your DNS MX listing with a
lower value and when you switch off you old server the mail will be
forwarded to the new server.
I hope this helps, if I have confused you sorry we can take this offline.
Regards
Alex
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glynn S. Condez
Sent: 13 June 2001 09:06
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Subject: Multi Mail servers.
Hello All! I know this is an OFF topic questions but i really don't have
any source to get and i believe that you can help me.
Our mail server(Slackware) is getting full and we cant add any accounts to
it, were planning to expand our services so we need to setup and configure
a new mail server. My problem is were going to set-up a new mail server
with the same domain but how could the email route to that new server
instead of going to the old server, its sound like routing. I don't know
how to implement this one but i could configure if its a software
related. I don't know if yahoo.com uses this one, but when i tried to look
at the mx entries in yahoo i got many mail servers. so maybe the
implementation is like that.
I hope anyone could help me regarding this.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for this off topic question.
best regards,
Glynn Condez
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