Dusty,
I was testing your suggestions but I have few more questions:
Where in Office One and Two will I put these records? Is it on the DNS or
Host file?
> Office One:
> server1domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.server1domain.com
> server1domain.com. IN MX 20 mail.server2domain.com
>
> Office Two:
> server2domain.com IN MX 10 mail.server2domain.com
> server2domain.com IN MX 20 mail.server1domain.com
Assuming that Office One goes down, how will mails going to Office One be
re-routed to Office Two? How will the Office Two know when to receive for
Office One?
Thanks again in advance.
Raymond
----- Original Message -----
From: ## Dusty Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS
> >Suppose that we have 2 offices with 2 seperate Imail servers, Server1 and
> >the other Server2. Can we set them up to relay addresses for each other
so
> >that whenever one server goes down, the other will temporarily hold the
> >emails?
>
> You could have two different offices handle mail for
> each other.
>
> Office One:
> server1domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.server1domain.com
> server1domain.com. IN MX 20 mail.server2domain.com
>
> Office Two:
> server2domain.com IN MX 10 mail.server2domain.com
> server2domain.com IN MX 20 mail.server1domain.com
>
> In the above example if mail.server1domain.com is down,
> mail.server2domain.com will store its mail until it comes up
> or the retries timeout.
>
> >And also, if i put this on my DNS,
>
> >remotedomain.com IN MX 20 your.domain.com
> >remotedomain.com IN MX 10 mail.remotedomain.com
>
> >Will all the remotedomain's email pass through my mail server first
before
> >it will be delivered to their server?
>
> Think about it like this. The lower the number the higher the priority.
> So in your example above, if mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> then the sending MTA will attempt to send it to mail.remotedomain.com
> first. If it is not available then it will attempt to send to
> you.domain.com.
>
> Dusty
>
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