Smart Business Lists wrote: > ... > See the IMAIL knowledge base articles for setting up backup mail server > in any case for detailed instructions. Generally you have to: > ... > 3) edit your hosts file on backup server so that the domain being baked > up routes to the primary > > I think it is this ability to manipulate the host file that makes imail > such a nice product to use as a backup. When the primary comes back > online then the IMAIL secondary sends the queued mail to the primary > using the route in the host file. ...
I don't understand what you're getting at here. There should be no need to edit the hosts file on either of the two SMTP servers, DNS lookups will resolve a FQDN to a IP address. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
