Troy ,
I'm now thinking in the same problem , the point is that you don't need just only can
send/receive mails using backup machine when the main machine went down , but the
users will need also to download their mails from the main machine when it came back ,
also what about the mails came on the backup machine after the main machine came alive
again.
That means you need the users never feel that there is a problem in the mail server or
about their mail , after investigation here we found that the only solution to achive
this is Clusterd servers which will achive High availability you are dreaming about ,
If a node fails in the cluster the other will take over its work , and the 2 nodes
share the storage array so no problems about users mail.
I wish this will help you.
Regards,
Waleed
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Troy D. Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:23:25 -0400
>What we're looking for is if our primary server goes down that the secondary
>kicks in. Is it possible for the secondary server to send and receive emails
>until the primary is back up or is this just wishful thinking?
>
>Troy D. Hilton
>SofWerks LLC.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anthony Chatman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:54 AM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail failover
>
>
>> Well, you can always setup a sendmail (IMHO, why should one buy another
>> imail license just for failover? Please no salesman responses) server as
>> a queuing server. Be sure to the MX records associated with your
>> mailserver in DNS to be higher than the primary mailserver.
>>
>> If indeed this is what you are asking..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Troy D. Hilton wrote:
>>
>> > Recently someone raised the issue of configuring a "failover" server for
>> > an Imail server so that should one server go down the other would pickup
>> > the emails. I tried to find it but I believe the question was
>> > raised within a different topic of conversation.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > How would I go about setting up a failover server for my existing Imail
>> > box? What are the pros and cons of this?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Troy D. Hilton
>> > SofWerks LLC.
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
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